Local Government Act - Part 3 [Cap. 125] (Pgs S194-S320)

PacLII Note: Due to the size of this Act and the Regulations, PacLII has also published it in four parts. This is Part 3.

Exchange, subletting and sharing of stalls

34. No stallholder shall exchange, sublet, surrender or part with the possession of his stall or share his stall with another vendor
or person except with the permission of the Market Master.

Advertising and auctions

35. No person shall in the market advertise goods by shouting, or conduct a sale by auction except with the permission of the Market
Master.

Selling mixed yaqona prohibited

36. No person shall sell or offer for sale mixed yaqona in any part of the market without the prior approval of the Council.

Cooking in the market

37. No person shall do any cooking in any part of the market without the prior approval of the Council.

Intoxicating liquor prohibited

38. No person shall bring into the market any intoxicating liquor or methylated spirit.

Unwholesome products

39. No person shall bring into the market anything which in the opinion of the Market Master is bad, obnoxious, unwholesome or dangerous,
and the Market Master may remove or cause to be removed any such thing brought within the precincts of the market.

Hygiene

40. Stallholders shall keep their produce and expose it for sale in as hygienic a manner as is practicable and shall obey all reasonable
directions of the Market Master in this regard.

Cleanliness

41. Stallholders shall keep their stalls in a clean and orderly condition, and shall, as and when required, dispose of any litter,
empty containers and refuse as directed by the Market Master. Any stallholder refusing or neglecting to obey the reasonable directions
of the Market Master under the provisions of this by-law may, in addition to any fine to which he may be liable under the provisions
of these By-laws lawfully be refused the allocation of a stall by the Council or the Market Master.

Dogs prohibited

42. No person shall bring a dog into the market or suffer it to remain there, and the Market Master shall have power to remove or
order the removal of any dog from the market.

Spitting

43. No person shall spit or discharge any nasal fluid or mucus on to any roadway, footpath, floor or other part of the market or any
utensils, produce, article or thing standing or being in the market.

Disease

44. No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease or having recently been exposed to infection by such a disease shall
engage in the sale of any goods in the market.

Restriction on entry

45. No person shall enter or remain in the market outside the hours during which the market is open for business without the authority
of the Market Master.

Obstruction of officials

46. No person shall obstruct, prevent, hinder or interfere with the Market Master or any attendant in the performance of any duty
under the provisions of this Part, and no person shall enter the market whilst drunk or excite a riot or curse or swear or use any
gross, indecent, filthy or abusive language or gamble or be guilty of any other misconduct therein.

Obstruction of market

47. No person shall place any matter or thing on any roadway, footpath or passage in the market so as to obstruct the free use of
such roadway, footpath or passage, or neglect or refuse to remove such matter or thing on being required to do so by the Market Master.

Unsold goods

48.—(1) Goods unsold at the close of the day may be left in the market at the owner's risk with the permission of the Market
Master and any goods so left without such permission may be removed by the Market Master and disposed of in such manner as he may
consider reasonable.

(2) With his consent goods may be left in the care of the Market Master upon payment in advance of a charge to be prescribed by the
Council.

Offences

49. Any person contravening or failing to comply with the provisions of this Part, other than those of by-laws 21, 26, 29, 32 and
48, shall be guilty of an offence.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 9 of 1971.)

PART VI—TAXI STANDS AND GOODS VEHICLE STANDS

Management of taxi stand, etc.

50. Every taxi stand and goods vehicle stand shall be under the immediate management and control of the Clerk:

Provided that the Council may appoint an attendant or attendants to exercise control over a taxi stand or goods vehicle stand with
such functions with regard thereto as the Council may, by resolution, determine.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 9 of 1971.)

Licence to use taxi stand, etc.

51. Each operator desiring to use a taxi stand or goods vehicle stand shall make application, in the form set out in the First Schedule,
for a licence for his taxi to use a taxi stand.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 9 of 1971.)

Licences

52. All licences to use a taxi stand or goods vehicle stand shall be issued on behalf of the Council by the Clerk in the form set
out in the Second Schedule and shall have effect in respect only of the taxi or goods vehicle described therein.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 9 of 1971.)

Fees

53.—(1) The licence fees for the use of a taxi stand or goods vehicle stand shall be $3.00 per quarter payable in advance.

(2) All licence fees payable to the Council under the provisions of these By-laws shall be recoverable by the Council as civil debts
by due process of law.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 9 of 1971.)

PART VII—MISCELLANEOUS

Penalty

54. Any person guilty of an offence under the provisions of these By-laws shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,
or in the case of a continuing offence to a fine of $4 for each day during which such offence continues, and, in addition to any
such penalty, any expense incurred by the Council in consequence of any breach of these By-laws shall be refunded by such person
to the Council.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 8 of 1976.)

FIRST SCHEDULE(By-law 51)(Inserted by Local Government Notice 9 of 1971.)

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LEVUKA TOWN COUNCIL

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LEVUKA TOWN BY-LAWS(By-law 51)

APPLICATION FOR LICENCE TO USE TAXI STAND OR GOODS VEHICLE STAND

I/We ................................................... of ......................................................... hereby apply
for a licence for my/our undermentioned vehicle(s) to use the Levuka Taxi/Goods Vehicle Stand.

The area defined in the Schedule shall be a town for the purposes of the Local Government Act and shall be known as the town of Nadi.

SCHEDULE

All that parcel of land situated in the Tikina of Nadi and Nawaka in the Province of Ba, as described hereunder.

Commencing at a point on the left bank of the Nadi River at its junction with Queen's Road; thence upstream by that river to the northern
corner of plan ND 2620 and by the eastern boundary of the said plan to Andrews Road; thence south-easterly by that road to a point
approximately 6 chains inside the boundary of plan ND 2380; thence by a direct line north-easterly to Nadi River and by that river
upstream to a point opposite the eastern boundary of St. Andrews School site (plan ND 4676); thence by the eastern boundary of the
said school site and westerly by the northern boundary of plan ND 3143 to a point at the intersection of the prolongation of the
eastern boundary of plan DP 1403; thence by that line southwards to Nadi Back Road.

Thence westerly by that road and northerly by the western boundary of plan DP 1403 and plan ND 2761; thence westerly by the southern
boundary of Certificate of Title 3403 to Nadi Back Road; thence by that road and Queen's Road to the south-western corner of plan
DP 1833; thence by the western boundary of plans DP 1833 and DP 2630 and the southern boundary of plans ND 4393 and ND 2155; thence
by the western boundary of plans ND 2155, ND 3098 and ND 4133 to the Nadi River;

Thence upstream by the Nadi River to the eastern boundary of lot 2 on plan ND 3620; thence by that boundary and the southern and western
boundaries of lot 1 of plan ND 3620; thence westerly by the southern boundary of plans ND 2530, ND 2650 and by the southern alignment
of the drain on the southern boundary of plan ND 3692 to the Nadi River; thence by the western boundary of the said plan ND 3692
and by Narewa Road to its junction with the eastern boundary of plan ND 4070; thence northerly by that boundary to the southern boundary
of plan ND 910; thence easterly to plan ND 4047; and by its western and northern boundaries to plan DP 79; thence by the western,
northern and eastern boundaries of that plan to Queen's Road;

Thence by Queen's Road and by the northern and eastern boundaries of plan ND 2183 returning to and following Queen's Road easterly
to the western boundary of Certificate of Title XI/05, 162; thence by the western and northern boundaries of that title to the road
on the western boundary of plan DP 2631; thence by that road to a point being at the intersection of the prolongation of the north-western
boundary of lot 63 of plan DP 2631; thence north-easterly by that line and the western boundary of lots 63, 4, 6 and 5 of that plan;
thence by the eastern boundary of the said lot 5 and of the cul-de-sac to Kennedy Avenue;

Thence by the western boundary of plan DP 2678 and easterly by the northern alignment of Enamanu Road; thence southwards by the southern
alignment of Queen's Road to a point intersected by the prolongation of the south-western boundary of lot 54 on Plan DP 2631; thence
by that prolongation south-easterly for a distance of 2½ chains; thence south-westerly by a line parallel with Queen's Road
to the south-eastern boundary of plan DP 2610; thence by that boundary by a direct line to the north-eastern corner of Certificate
of Title XI/05, 261; thence by the southern and western boundaries of that title to Queen's Road; thence westerly and southerly by
Queen's Road to the point of commencement;

And being more particularly delineated on plan DP 27 lodged in the office of the Director of Lands at Suva, with a copy at the office
of the Nadi Town Council.

Together with—

Area A—

All that area of land in varying widths, not exceeding sixty chains, extending generally on both sides of the Queen's Road and Votualevu
Road, from Enamanu Road on the south to Legalega Road on the north;

Area B—

All that area of land lying on the south of Nadi Airport and bounded generally by Nadi Bay Road on the east, Wailoaloa Road on the
south, the high-water-mark of the seacoast on the west and Nadi Airport boundary on the north;

Area C—

All that area of land on the south-eastern side of Nadi town situated between the southern boundaries of Nadi town and the Back Road;

Area D—

All that rectangular area of land, measuring 16 chains by 7½ chains more or less, situated at the south-western end of Nadi town
and adjoining the present town boundary.

The above-described areas of land are more particularly shown edged red on plan P.P. 113 kept at the office of the Permanent Secretary
for Lands and Mineral Resources in Suva and a copy available for inspection at the office of the Nadi Town Council.

And together with—

All that parcel of Crown Land represented by survey as Lot 1 on Plan ND 4529 and situated immediately east of the Nadi Airport runway
and adjacent to the Namaka Public School along the existing north-western boundaries of Nadi Town.

The above described area is shown verged red on Plan PP 213 kept in the office of the Director of Lands and Surveyor-General in Suva,
and copies are available for inspection at the office of the Director of Town and Country Planning in Suva and the offices of Nadi
Town Council and District Officer Nadi and the Commissioner Western at Lautoka.

But excluding—

All that area of land lying approximately between Legalega Road and Votualevu Road and bounded generally on the north and east by
the boundaries of Nadi town (as extended by Notice No. 16 of 1973 in the Local Government Supplement to the Fiji Royal Gazette), on the south by a road 25 links wide and on the west by a road 40 feet wide.

The above described area is shown verged green on plan PP 174 kept in the office of the Director of Lands and Surveyor-General in
Suva, and copies are available for inspection at the office of the Director of Town and Country Planning in Suva and the offices
of Nadi Town Council at Nadi.

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SECTION 5—NADI WARDS ORDER

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PARAGRAPH

1. Short title2. Division of Nadi into wards

Local Government Notice No. 39 of 1973

Short title

1. This Order may be cited as the Nadi Wards Order.

Division of Nadi into wards

2. The town of Nadi is hereby divided into four wards, namely:—

(1) the Nadi Ward, comprising all that portion of the town of Nadi between the Nadi River and the southern boundary of the town;

(2) the Narewa Ward, comprising all that portion of the town of Nadi situated between the Nadi River a line commencing at the western
junction of Enamanu Road and the town boundary, thence proceeding in an easterly direction to Queen's Road, thence proceeding along
the centreline of Queen's Road to Saunaka Road, thence proceeding along the centreline of Saunaka Road to the town boundary, and
the Nadi River;

(3) the Namaka Ward, comprising all that portion of the town of Nadi between a line commencing at the southern junction of the Namaka
Public School Compound and the town boundary, thence proceeding in an easterly direction along the southern boundary of such Compound
to Queen's Road, thence proceeding in an easterly direction along the centreline of the Nadi Back Road to the town boundary, and
the northern boundary of the town;

(4) the Martintar Ward, comprising the remainder of the town of Nadi.

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SECTION 9—NUMBER OF TOWN COUNCILLORS (NADI) ORDER

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PARAGRAPH

1. Short title2. Number of membersSchedule—Number of Town Councillors

Local Government Notice No. 38 of 1973

Short title

1. This Order may be cited as the Number of Town Councillors (Nadi) Order.

Number of members

2. The number of members to be elected to the Nadi Town Council for each ward shall, with effect from the next general election to
such Council, be as specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

NADI WARD ...................................... 4 members

NAMAKA WARD ............................... 4 members

MARTINTAR WARD .......................... 3 members

NAREWA WARD ................................ 2 members____________

SECTION 122—NADI (CONTROL AND USE OF STREETS) BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Action prohibited4. Articles falling from vehicles5. Crossing of gutters, etc.6. Control of motor vehicles without pneumatic tyres7. Control of fireworks8. Street trading

Local Government Notice No. 3 of 1976

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Nadi (Control and Use of Streets) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"Council" means the Nadi Town Council;

"Town Clerk" means the Town Clerk appointed by the Council;

"Town Engineer" means the Town Engineer appointed by the Council.

Action prohibited

3. No person shall in any street—

(a) place, leave or deposit or permit to be placed, left or deposited any derelict vehicle, glass, refuse, rubbish or any noisome or
offensive matter, save under the authority of the Council or, in accordance with the requirements of any law for the time being in
force;

(b) wash, repair, grease, dismantle or assemble any vehicle otherwise than in the case of an emergency;

(c) paint any vehicle;

(d) leave any vehicle or any box, crate, barrel or package so as to form an obstruction;

(e) leave any matter or material of an inflammable nature;

(f) wilfully or maliciously damage or destroy any tree, shrub, plant, building or structure, the property of the Council;

(g) wilfully or maliciously extinguish or damage any street lamp or damage any post or power pole;

(h) park or stop an omnibus on any road, street or laneway other than a road, street, laneway or area specified for such parking or stopping;

(i) encumber or obstruct such street in any manner not hereinbefore described.

Articles falling from vehicles

4.—(1) It shall be the duty of the driver of any vehicle to take all reasonable precautions to ensure that no article, substance
or material shall fall from or be deposited by such vehicle on any street.

(2) In the event of any such article, substance or material falling from or becoming deposited by any vehicle the driver thereof shall
take all reasonable steps to safeguard other traffic on the street and to remove such article, substance or material immediately
thereafter.

(3) In the event of failure to remove any such article, substance or material the Council may remove it and the cost thereof may be
recovered from the person responsible for its removal.

Crossing of gutters, etc.

5.—(1) Without the prior written permission of the Town Engineer, no planks or other material shall be placed by any person
in or across any gutter or ditch or against any kerb for the purpose of enabling vehicles to make a crossing of such gutter, ditch
or kerb. In granting any such permission, the Town Engineer may, in his discretion, require that the applicant therefor furnish security
to an amount considered by the Town Engineer to be reasonable.

(2) No person shall drive any vehicle across any gutter or ditch or on any footpath unless a suitable crossing has been constructed
for the purpose and has been approved by the Town Engineer under the provisions of paragraph (1).

Control of motor vehicles without pneumatic tyres

6. No person shall drive or take any motor vehicle without pneumatic tyres upon any street unless authorised by the Council.

Control of fireworks

7. No person shall discharge any firework, cracker or explosive material in a street or public place without having first obtained
permission in writing from the Council:

Provided that no permit shall be required under this by-law for the discharge of fireworks or crackers on New Year's Day, 5 November,
Diwali and the Hindu New Year.

Street trading

8.—(1) Without a permit in writing obtained from the Town Clerk and payment of such fee as the Council may by resolution prescribe,
no person shall use any street or public place for the purpose of—

(a) distributing any pamphlet or advertising matter;

(b) the sale of tickets; or

(c) the carrying on of the business of commercial photography.

(2) Any permit granted under the provisions of paragraph (1) may be granted for such period of time and upon such terms and conditions
as the Council may consider appropriate.

SECTION 122—NADI (HAWKERS) BY-LAWS

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Hawkers to be licensed4. Sale of pigeons and wild birds prohibited5. Application for licence6. Council may refuse licence7. Council may suspend or cancel licence8. Issue of licence9. Effect of licence10. Duration of licence11. Duties and obligations of hawker12. Penalty

First Schedule—Application for Hawker's Licence

Second Schedule—Hawker's Licence

Local Government Notices Nos. 17 of 1975, 2 of 1977.

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Nadi (Hawkers) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"Council" means the Nadi Town Council;

"goods" includes beads, jewellery and native curios and articles of food or produce grown in Fiji;

"hawker" means a person who by going from place to place sells goods carried on his person or from a handcart, box, basket, tray and
the like or from a boat, horse-drawn vehicle, bicycle, motor vehicle, or any other type of conveyance;

"officer" means the Town Clerk and also any person acting as such for the time being, any sanitary inspector appointed, by the Council,
or any officer or servant of the Council in the performance of any duty under these By-laws;

"Town Clerk" means the Town Clerk appointed by the Council.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 2 of 1977.)

Hawkers to be licensed

3. No person shall within the town follow the calling of a hawker or hawk for sale any produce, livestock, or other goods whatsoever
unless he shall be the holder in his own name of an unexpired hawker's licence issued by the Council.

Sale of pigeons and wild birds prohibited

4. No licence issued under these By-laws shall permit the sale of pigeons and/or wild birds.

Application for licence

5. Every person desirous of obtaining a hawker's licence shall make application in person in writing to the Town Clerk in the form
in the First Schedule.

Council may refuse licence

6. The Council may refuse to grant a hawker's licence to any person.

Council may suspend or cancel licence

7. The Council may suspend or cancel the licence of any hawker.

Issue of licence

8. The Town Clerk shall, upon receiving the application mentioned in by-law 5 and, subject to such directions as he shall receive
from the Council in that behalf, issue a licence in the form in the Second Schedule to the applicant.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 2 of 1977.)

Effect of licence

9. A hawker's licence issued by the Council under by-law 8 shall authorise only the hawking and sale of such goods as are endorsed
on the licence.

Duration of licence

10. A hawker's licence shall be issued for not more than three months, and shall expire on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September, and 31
December in each and every year.

Duties and obligations of hawker

11. A licensed hawker shall—

(a) at all times when hawking carry his licence with him and shall on demand produce the same to any police officer or officer of the
Council;

(b) if by remaining stationary in any road, street, or place, he shall cause any obstruction to pedestrian or other traffic, forthwith
move away from such road, street or place in such manner as effectively to remove such obstruction;

(c) when using a handcart or vehicle of any kind, keep such handcart or vehicle as near as practicable to the left hand side of the road
or street;

(d) keep his boat, basket, tray, utensils, handcart or vehicle clean to the satisfaction of any sanitary inspector appointed by the Council;

(e) prevent any goods intended for human consumption from coming into contact with or being exposed to any dirt, filth, contagion, infection,
flies, or anything likely to render such goods injurious to health;

(f) cease to hawk any goods intended for human consumption while he is suffering from any infection, contagious or offensive disease
or skin complaint;

(g) follow the directions of the authorised officers of the Council as to the location of his stall and his movements when hawking.

Penalty

12. Any person contravening or failing to comply with these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction
to a fine not exceeding $20 and to a further fine of $10 for each day during which such contravention continues.

"abandon" includes to throw, drop, deposit, place, spill, leave, cast or otherwise part with possession;

"authorised person" means a person appointed by the Council to be an authorised person for the purpose of these By-laws or any police
officer;

"Council" means the Nadi Town Council;

"litter" means any matter or thing whether solid or liquid or partly solid or partly liquid, the possession of which has been abandoned
by any person having the control of the same in any street or land or public place, and includes building, household, shop, garden
and trade refuse or waste; human, animal, fish and vegetable refuse or waste; containers and package of any description, whether
manufactured in whole or in part, of wood, glass, metal, paper or plastic; derelict vehicles, household, shop and factory furniture,
appliances and machinery or any part thereof; timber, wood, glass, iron, concrete, sand, earth, gravel, stone and clay; or any matter
or thing which causes or contributes to or tends to the defacement or defilement of any street, land or public place.

Prohibition

3. No person shall abandon or cause to be abandoned any litter in or upon any street, public place or land save under the authority
of or in accordance with the requirements of any law for the time being in force.

Powers of authorised person

4. An authorised person may require the person whom he finds committing or whom he reasonably suspects to be committing or to have
committed an offence against these By-laws to state his full name and usual place of residence.

Provision for identity card

5. Every authorised person, other than a police officer, shall be issued with an identity card by the Council wherein shall be specified
the name of the authorised person to whom it is issued and the fact that he is an authorised person for the purpose of these By-laws,
and in the exercise of his powers and functions under these By-laws an authorised person shall carry an identity card and, should
the circumstances require it, exhibit it for the purpose of identification.

Penalties

6. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20 and to a further fine of $20 for every day during which such contravention or non-compliance
continues.

Evidence in legal proceedings

7. In any proceedings for an offence against these By-laws—

(a) the onus of proof that any litter has not been abandoned shall be on the defendant;

(b) a statement in the complaint that a place referred to therein is a street or a part of a street or a public place or open to use
by the public as of right shall be evidence, and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, conclusive evidence of the matters
contained therein.

"incinerator" means any receptacle or construction whether within a building or outside constructed or adapted for the destruction
by fire of any object;

"pollutant" means any solid, liquid or gaseous matter prejudicial to health or the safety of any person or, by odour or appearance,
offensive or objectionable.

Burning of objects prejudicial to health or safety

3. No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Council or the Fire Officer first had and obtained, burn, other than in
a building or in an incinerator, any object or matter which may constitute a hazard to health or the safety of any person or property.

Pollutants

4. No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Council or the Fire Officer first had and obtained, light any fire from
which a pollutant is released into the environment.

Authority to burn dead trees, etc.

5. The Council may, upon receipt of written application authorise in writing the applicant to burn dead trees, wood, long grass, scrub,
stubble, weeds or the cuttings of mowing or trimming arising out of the normal course of agriculture or horticulture, at such times
and subject to such conditions as the Council may prescribe.

Camp fires

6. Nothing in these By-laws shall affect the lighting of camp fires for the purpose of the preparation of food or drink.

Burning of vegetation

7. Nothing in these By-laws shall affect a controlled burning of vegetation for the protection of life or property.

Penalty

8. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20 and to a further fine of $5 for every day during which such contravention or non-compliance
continues.

SECTION 122—NADI TOWN BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART I—PRELIMINARY

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation

PART II—SANITATION

3. Clearing of scrub, brushwood or undergrowth4. Public drains, etc.5. Private drains6. Council may undertake work7. Collection and disposal of garbage8. Latrines and privies9. Cleaning of streets10. Obstruction, etc., an offence

PART III—PUBLIC PARKS

11. Exclusive user of public parks may be granted12. Method of application and approval13. Council may retain exclusive user of any public park14. Charges may be made for admission15. Gatekeeper, etc., to be employed by the Council16. Failing to pay charge for admission17. Fairgrounds18. Hours of entry19. Public parks

PART IV—BUS STATION, TAXI AND GOODS VEHICLE STAND

20. Management of bus station, etc.21. Licence to use bus station, etc.22. Licences to be issued by Clerk.23. Fees24. Payment of fees25. Bus station not to be used without licence26. Revocation of licence27. Control of bus station, etc.28. Parking of motor omnibus

By-laws 5 September 1966, Local Government Notices Nos. 7 of 1968, 8 of 1969,15 of 1971, 14 of 1975, 3 of 1977, Legal Notice No. 155 of 1978

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Nadi Town By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"authorised" means duly authorised by the Council;

"book" means any book or other printed or written matter, picture, print, photograph, film, engraving, etching, map, plan, chart,
record or similar contrivance for reproducing sound, music score and any article of a like nature forming part of the contents of
the library;

"bus operator" includes any person, firm, company or organization which owns or operates a motor omnibus;

"bus shelter" means any shelter owned and controlled by the Council for the use of bus passengers in the town of Nadi;

"bus station" means the bus Station maintained and controlled by the Council situated at Korovulo Park, Nadi and contained in C.T.
XI/05-163;

"Council" means the Nadi Town Council;

"dance hall" means any hall, house, room, garden or other place kept or used, other than on an isolated occasion or during the course
of religious festivals, for public dancing, singing, music or other public entertainment of a similar nature, but does not include
any licensed hotel or licensed cinematograph theatre;

"dump" means the area of land used by the Council for the disposal of garbage;

"fish" means all edible aquatic animals and foods other than shell-fish and turtles;

"goods vehicle" means any motor vehicle used for the carriage of goods for hire or reward or used in the course of trade or agriculture;

"goods vehicle stand" means any goods vehicle stand at Nadi maintained and controlled by the Council;

"library" means any public library belonging to or controlled by the Council;

"librarian" means the person appointed as such by the Council or any other person authorised in that behalf by the Council;

"loud speaker" includes a megaphone and any other device for amplifying sound;

"market" means the place established as a market in the town of Nadi;

"Market Master" means the Market Master appointed by the Council and includes a deputy duly appointed by the Council;

"motor omnibus" means a public service vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than six passengers excluding the driver;

"offensive matter" means and includes offal, night soil, putrid meat, entrails of fish or poultry, carrion, blood, dung, manure, shells,
bones, rags, fruit or vegetable refuse, soap lees, impure water and any other matter giving off an offensive odour or being in any
way a nuisance or likely to be injurious to health;

"operator" includes any person, firm, company or organisation which owns or operates a goods vehicle, motor omnibus or taxi;

"stall" means any place within the market where produce or handicrafts are sold or offered for sale;

"supplier" means a person who supplies produce to a miller, manufacturer or processor;

"taxi" means a public service vehicle licensed to carry not more than six passengers, excluding the driver;

"taxi stand" means all taxi stands at Nadi maintained and controlled by the Council.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969; 3 of 1977.)

PART II—SANITATION

Clearing of scrub, brushwood or undergrowth

3.—(1) The Council or an authorised officer thereof may serve upon the owner, occupier or lessee of any land (whether built
upon or not) within the town, a notice requiring him to keep such land clear of all scrub, brushwood, undergrowth, and garbage, including
derelict vehicles, and maintain such land in a sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Council or of an authorised officer
thereof.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 15 of 1971.)

(2) Any owner, occupier or lessee of any land failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1), shall be guilty of an offence.

Public drains, etc.

4. Any person who throws or deposits, or causes or suffers to be thrown or deposited, any refuse, garbage or offensive matter or any
other kind of matter of a type likely to cause an obstruction, into any public culvert, drain, ditch, sewer or waterway shall be
guilty of an offence.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 15 of 1971.)

Private drains

5.—(1) The owner, occupier or lessee of any building, premises or land, shall construct such drains as the Council may, by notice,
require for the effectual removal of all storm, slop and waste water from such building, premises or land.

(2) Such drains shall be properly connected to a public drain or to such other outlet approved by the Council, and shall be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition.

(3) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraphs (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

Council may undertake work

6. If any owner, occupier or lessee of any building, premises or land shall fail to comply with a notice given under the provisions
of by-laws 3 or 5 within such time as the Council may, in such notice prescribe, the Council may undertake the work and the cost
thereof shall be a debt due to the Council and may be sued for before a court of competent jurisdiction.

Collection and disposal of garbage

7.—(1) Garbage shall be deposited only in garbage pans supplied by the occupier and approved by the Council or an authorised
officer thereof and such garbage pans shall be in accordance with the requirements of Part X of the Public Health Regulations and
shall be fitted with one or more handles.

(See Cap. 111.)

(2) No person, other than a servant of the Council, shall collect garbage without the permission in writing of the Council.

(3) No person, other than a servant of the Council, shall deposit or cause or permit any other person to deposit any garbage or any
other refuse of any kind at the dump without the permission in writing of the Council, or an authorised officer thereof, and only
at such times and places and in such a manner as the Council or an authorised officer thereof may direct.

(4) Garbage receptacles shall be placed on the footpath adjoining each premises next adjacent to the road taken by the collecting
vehicle, or in such other place as the Council or any authorised officer thereof may permit in respect of any particular premises,
in which case the owner of such premises shall provide an easy means of access thereto for removal of garbage.

(5) The occupier of any residence, shop, business premises or other building where there may be an accumulation of kitchen refuse
or decomposing matter of any kind shall provide the number of garbage receptacles required by the local authority.

(6) Any person committing any breach of the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence and, in addition to any penalty
to which he is liable under the provisions of by-law 70, shall remove or cause to be removed such garbage or other refuse in such
a manner and within such time as the Council or an authorised officer thereof may direct:

Provided that the Council may cause the garbage or other refuse to be removed and may recover the costs and expenses incurred in such
removal from the occupier.

Latrines and privies

8.—(1) The owner of any dwelling-house, business premises, lodging house or any place where persons are accommodated or labour
is employed shall construct latrines or privies or such type and number as the Council may, by notice, require.

(2) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

Cleaning of streets

9.—(1) No person shall upon any street or public place throw or deposit or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited any offensive
matter, tins or refuse of any description.

(2) The occupier of any business premises shall not allow trade goods, cases, boxes, barrels or any merchandise of any description
to remain on any street.

(3) No person shall permit any cattle, horse, sheep, pig or goat to graze upon any public place without the written consent of the
Clerk or any person authorised by the Council.

(4) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Obstruction, etc., an offence

10. Any person who obstructs, molests or hinders any officer or servant of the Council in the execution of his duty or who uses violent
or threatening language to or attempts in any way whatsoever to intimidate such servant or who endeavours by any bribe, threat or
promise to cause any such servant to neglect or exceed his duty, shall be guilty of an offence.

PART III—PUBLIC PARKS

Exclusive user of public parks may be granted

11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these By-laws the Council may grant permission to any sporting, social or other organisation
or body to have exclusive use of the whole or any part of the public park on any particular day or days for purposes approved by
the Council and may give such organisation or body power to levy charges for admission:

Provided that—

(a) notwithstanding the grant of any such permission, the Council may, in its absolute discretion, revoke such permission to enable the
public park to be used for other purposes in connection with a special occasion;

(b) the Council may, in its absolute discretion at any time declare, any public park to be unusable, in which case the flying of a red
flag and the posting of a notice declaring such park to be unusable, at the entrance to the park shall be deemed to be sufficient
notice to all persons that the park is unusable.

(2) Any person using any public park for sporting, recreational or social purposes when such park has been declared to be unusable
shall be guilty of an offence.

Method of application and approval

12.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), any application for the grant of exclusive user of any public park shall
be made to the Clerk not less than fourteen days before the day, or the first of the days, when such user is required and shall be
subject to approval by resolution of the Council.

(2) Where, by reason of special circumstances, it is not possible for an application to be made at least fourteen days before the
user, or first user, of any park is required, such applicaton may be made to the Clerk who shall consult the Mayor, whose decision
shall be deemed to be the decision of the Council and shall be reported to the Council at the next meeting thereof.

Council may retain exclusive user of any public park

13.—(1) The Council may, by resolution, retain to itself the exclusive user of the whole or any part of any public park on any
special occasion.

(2) The Council may from time to time set aside any public park or any portion thereof for use as a children's playground and install
therein equipment for use by children in which event the Council may prohibit the use of such equipment by persons of above such
age as the Council may, by resolution, determine.

Charges may be made for admission

14. The Council may, by resolution, from time to time—

(a) make a charge to be paid by the organisation or body to which permission has been granted for the exclusive user of any public park
or any part thereof under the provisions of by-law 11, which charge may be a lump sum or a percentage of the gross gate receipts;
or

(b) make a charge to be paid by members of the public on any occasion when the Council retains to itself the exclusive user of any public
park or any part thereof.

Gatekeeper, etc., to be employed by the Council

15.—(1) The Council shall provide a gatekeeper and such other persons as may be necessary for the purpose of controlling admission
to any public park, the collection of admission charges and the sale of tickets whenever the Council by resolution, makes a charge
based on a percentage of gross gate receipts under the provisions of paragraph (a) of by-law 14.

(2) The gatekeeper shall be responsible to the Council for certifying the gross gate receipts, and the charges referred to in paragraph
(1) shall be calculated in accordance with such certificate and be deducted from such receipts. All such charges shall thereupon
be paid by the gatekeeper to the Clerk.

Failing to pay charge for admission

16. Any person who shall enter or remain within the bounds of any public park or any part thereof without having paid any lawful charge
made for admission thereto under the authority of these By-laws, or who shall neglect or refuse to pay such charge on demand, may
forthwith be removed therefrom and shall be guilty of an offence.

Fairgrounds

17.—(1) No fair, circus or amusement park run for profit shall be established at any place nor shall any equipment be installed
in any fairground or amusement park run for profit except with the permission in writing of the Council and on payment of such fees
as the Council may, by resolution, from time to time, prescribe, and subject to such conditions as the Council may, by resolution,
impose.

(2) The Council or its officers shall at all times have access to the place prescribed and shall have the right to inspect all equipment
used therein.

(3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) or who fails to observe any condition imposed by the Council under
such provisions shall be guilty of an offence.

Hours of entry

18.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), any person may enter any public park at any time.

(2) The Council may, by resolution, prescribe particular hours during which any public park, other than a reserve, shall remain closed
in which case the Council shall cause a notice to be posted or affixed in a prominent place in such park specifying details of such
hours.

(3) Any person who shall enter or remain within any public park during the hours specified under the provisions of paragraph (2) without
the general or specific permission of the Clerk may forthwith be removed therefrom and shall be guilty of an offence.

Public parks

19.—(1) No person other than an authorised officer or servant of the Council shall in any public park—

(a) cut, pluck, injure or destroy any turf, tree, bush, shrub, flower, plant or other thing in or upon any part thereof, or dig, cut
or remove any sod, turf, loam, sand, gravel or other substance thereon or therefrom;

(b) negligently or wilfully injure, deface or remove any seat, notice, notice board, post, chair, railing fence, barrier, or other thing
which may from time to time be erected or placed therein by or with the authority of the Council;

(f) wilfully interfere with the authorised user thereof or with any game or sport permitted by the Council therein;

(g) sell or offer or expose for sale any food or other goods therein without the permission of the Council or an authorised officer thereof;

(h) deliver or read any public lecture, prayer, sermon or address of any kind or hold or take part in or cause any public assemblage
without the prior permission of the Council, and then only at such times and places as the Council may permit;

(i) draw, take or drive any truck, car, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, wheelbarrow, carriage or other vehicle other than an invalid's
chair or child's perambulator or push-cart therein without the prior permission, of the Council or an authorised officer thereof;

(j) bathe, wade or wash in any pond or pool therein or wilfully or negligently foul or pollute the water of any such pond or pool, or
take, injure or destroy, or attempt to take, injure or destroy, any fish in any such pond or pool;

(k) throw or deposit or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited in a pavilion therein any litter, garbage or offensive matter, except
in a receptacle provided by the Council for that purpose;

(l) aid in or abet any act or thing which may not be specifically mentioned in these By-laws and which may tend to the injury or disfigurement
thereof or interfere with the use and enjoyment thereof by the public for the purpose of exercise or recreation.

(2) No person shall in any public park—

(a) play at or engage in any game or exercise in such a manner as to injure any path, turf, tree, shrub, flower, plant, building or other
structure or thing therein or upon any part thereof;

(b) wilfully obstruct any officer or servant of the Council in the execution of any work in connection with such public park.

(3) Any person contravening or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

PART IV—BUS STATION, TAXI AND GOODS VEHICLE STAND(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Management of bus station, etc.

20. The bus station, taxi stand and goods vehicle stand shall be under the immediate management and control of the Clerk:

Provided that the Council may appoint an attendant or attendants to assist the Clerk to exercise control over the bus station and
any one or more stands with such functions with regard thereto as the Council may by resolution determine.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Licence to use bus station, etc.

21. Each operator desiring to use the bus station, the taxi stand or the goods vehicle stand shall make application in the form set
out in the First Schedule, for a licence for his motor omnibus, taxi or goods vehicle (as the case may be) to use the bus station,
the taxi stand or the goods vehicle stand.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Licences to be issued by Clerk

22. All licences to use the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle stand shall be issued on behalf of the Council by the Clerk in
the form of licence set out in the Second Schedule and shall have effect in respect only of the motor omnibus, taxi or goods vehicle
described therein.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Fees

23.—(1) The licence fees for the use of the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle stand by motor omnibuses, taxis or goods
vehicles shall be in accordance with the form set out in the Third Schedule and shall be collected and charged in accordance with
the provisions of the succeeding paragraphs of this by-law.

(2) The licence fees payable in respect of each motor omnibus, taxi or goods vehicle using the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle
stand shall be charged in respect of each calendar month and in arrear.

(3) In respect of motor omnibuses, the licence fees to be charged for any such monthly period shall be computed on the total number
of visits of the motor omnibus to the bus station during the month and shall be calculated from the time-table approved by the Transport
Control Board in respect of the road service licence under which such motor omnibus shall have been operating during the month or
from any other information which the Transport Control Board shall think fit to supply to the Clerk from its records or from any
other information obtained by the Clerk under the provisions of paragraph (4).

(4) If the Clerk considers that the number of visits to the bus station of any motor omnibus cannot be satisfactorily calculated from
any time-table, he may, by written notice, require the bus operator concerned to supply him with particulars of the numbers of visits
to the bus station and the times thereof of each motor omnibus operating under the bus operator's road service licence during the
month the subject of the computation; and any bus operator so required shall, within seven days after the receipt by him of such
notice, deliver to the Clerk a written statement, signed by such operator or under his authority, containing a true and correct statement
of that total number of visits to the bus station and the times thereof of each such motor omnibus during the said month.

(5) All licence fees payable to the Council under the provisions of these By-laws shall be recoverable by the Council as civil debts
by due process of law.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Payment of fees

24. Each operator shall pay to the Clerk the licence fees payable by him within fifteen days after he has been notified of the amount
thereof.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Bus station not to be used without licence

25.—(1) No operator shall be entitled to use the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle stand for the purpose of any motor
omnibus, taxi or goods vehicle unless he holds a valid licence issued under the provisions of these By-laws in respect of such motor
omnibus, taxi or goods vehicle.

(2) No motor omnibus, taxi or goods vehicle shall enter or use the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle stand at any time unless
a valid licence issued under the provisions of these By-laws is held by the operator in respect thereof and any person who contravenes
the provisions of this paragraph shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) No operator shall be entitled to use the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle stand while any licence fees owing by him under
the provisions of these By-laws remain unpaid after the due date.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Revocation of licence

26. The Council may revoke the licence of any operator who fails to pay by the due date any licence fees payable by him or who is
convicted of any offence under the provisions of these By-laws.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Control of bus station, etc.

27.—(1) No person shall without the written authority of the Council sell or offer or expose for sale any produce or goods in
or around the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle stand.

(2) No person shall place or deposit in or on any motor omnibus, taxi or goods vehicle standing in the bus station, taxi stand or
goods vehicle stand any placard, handbill, advertisement or notice without prior consent of the owner or driver of such motor omnibus,
taxi or goods vehicle.

(3) No person shall display in or on the bus station, taxi stand or goods vehicle stand or any bus shelter any placard, handbill,
advertisement or notice, pamphlet, book or paper without the prior, consent of the Council and on such terms and conditions as the
Council shall by resolution, determine.

(4) Any person contravening the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

Parking of motor omnibus

28.—(1) No person shall park any motor omnibus in the bus station except for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers
and their luggage and in no case for longer than—

(a) fifteen minutes immediately prior to the scheduled time of departure from the said bus station of such motor omnibus; or

(b) is reasonably necessary for the purpose of setting down passengers and their luggage.

(2) Any person contravening the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

PART V—NOISE PREVENTION

Noise prevention

29.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), no person shall sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument or operate
a loud speaker in any street, public park or any other park, garden, recreation area, sports ground or reserve to which the public
have access, or in any vehicle in any street therein.

(2) This by-law shall not apply—

(a) to the operation of a loud speaker for military or police purposes;

(b) to the sounding or playing of musical instruments by a band or musician playing with the prior permission of the Council;

(c) to the operation of a loud speaker or the sounding or playing of a musical or noisy instrument at a pleasure fair held with the prior
permission of the Council;

(d) to the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument or the operation of any loud speaker in a procession or public assembly
if permission for such instrument or loud speaker has been given under the provisions of the Public Order Act;

(Cap. 20.)

(e) to the operation of any mobile cinema van by any department of Government or by any person with the prior permission of the Council;

(f) to the operation, of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument operated or played with the prior
permission of the Council, at any sporting, recreational, social, religious or charitable assembly, event or fixture, conducted with
the prior permission of the Council under the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 11, or sub-paragraph (h) of paragraph (1) of by-law 19;

(g) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument, operated or played with the prior
permission of the Council, at any sporting, recreational, social, religious or charitable assembly, event or fixture, conducted in
any park, garden, recreation area, sports ground or reserve, other than a public park, to which the public have access;

(h) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any noisy or musical instrument in any place in respect of which
the Council has granted exemption, either generally or on any particular occasion;

(i) to the operation of any loud speaker in case of emergency.

(3) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

PART VI—DANCE HALLS(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969.)

Dance halls to be licensed

30.—(1) No person shall, within the town keep or use or permit to be kept or used any dance hall without first obtaining from
the Council a licence in respect thereof on payment of an annual fee of $6:

Provided that a licence may be granted for any period not exceeding thirty days upon payment of a fee $2.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), no dance hall may be used as such on a Sunday, on Good Friday or on Christmas
day.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969.)

Exemptions

31.—(1) No licence shall be required for the use of the Nadi Town Hall as a dance hall.

(2) The Council may by resolution exempt from the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 30 any club the main purpose of which is to
provide entertainment for its members, but which occasionally holds entertainments which are open to the public if the Council is
satisfied that such exemption is not likely to result in annoyance to or disturbance of the public.

(3) The Council may by resolution revoke any exemption granted under the provisions of paragraph (2) if annoyance to or disturbance
of the public has occurred.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969.)

Licences

32.—(1) Any person desirous of obtaining a licence under the provisions of these By-laws shall make application to the Clerk
in Form A set out in the Fourth Schedule.

(2) The Council may grant a licence to any person as it shall think fit upon such terms and conditions and subject to such restrictions
as it may consider appropriate. Any licence, other than one issued under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of by-law
30, shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date of issue.

(3) A licence issued under the provisions of this by-law shall be in Form B set out in the Fourth Schedule.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969.)

Transfer of licence

33. Upon the application of any licensee, the Clerk may permit the transfer of any licence issued under the provisions of these By-laws
to such other person as he may consider appropriate.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969.)

Refusal, revocation, etc., of licence

34.—(1) The Council may refuse to grant a licence to any person or in respect of any premises or may revoke or suspend or amend
any licence on any grounds which it considers sufficient.

(2) Where it is proposed that a licence be refused, revoked, suspended or amended under the provisions of paragraph (1), the Council
shall give to the applicant or the licensee, as the case may be, fourteen days' notice in writing of the meeting of the Council at
which the refusal, revocation, or suspension is to be considered and in such notice the Council shall set out the grounds upon which
consideration is being given to such refusal, revocation or suspension.

(3) No licence shall be refused, revoked, suspended or amended by the Council unless the applicant or the licensee has been given
an opportunity of being heard by the Council.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969)

Offences

35. Any person who contravenes the provisions of by-law 30 or any licensee who fails to comply with any condition of a licence granted
to him under these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1969.)

PART VII—MARKET

Market Master

36. The market shall be under the immediate management and control of the Market Master, who shall be appointed by and be responsible
to the Council.

Produce which may be sold

37. No person, except the holder of a wholesale or retail store licence or a butcher's licence issued under the provisions of any
Act relating to the licensing of businesses, shall sell or offer for sale any produce, other than fresh fish, or shell-fish in any
place within the town, other than in the market:

Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the sale of produce—

(a) by any producer, to a miller, manufacturer or processor where such produce is sold within the confines of property in the occupation
of such producers or of such miller, manufacturer or processor; or

(b) by any miller, manufacturer or processor to any of his employees or suppliers where such produce is sold within the confines of property
in the occupation of such miller, manufacturer or processor.

Cleaning and gutting fish

38. No person shall bring to the market or offer for sale in the market any fish, other than whitebait or other similar small fish,
unless such fish shall first have been gutted, gilled and cleaned.

Fresh fish

39. During the hours in which the market is open for business no person shall sell by retail fresh fish at any place outside the market:

Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the sale of fresh fish wholesale, or by a butcher or fishmonger or a retail or wholesale
store holder, licensed under the provisions of any Act for the time being in force relating to the licensing of businesses.

Restriction on sales

40. No person shall sell or offer for sale in the market any article other than produce or handicrafts.

Hours of business

41. The market shall be open for business during such hours as the Council may direct.

Directions given by Market Master

42. All persons using or being within the precincts of the market shall obey all reasonable directions given by the Market Master
for the purpose of observing the good order and cleanliness of the market.

Sales prohibited except from stalls

43. No person shall sell or offer for sale any article in the market except at a stall allotted to him by the Council or the Market
Master and during the hours that the market is open for business.

Allocation of stalls

44. The allocation of stalls in the market shall be made by the Council or the Market Master in as fair and reasonable a manner as
possible.

Alterations to stalls

45. No person shall make any alteration to a stall or exhibit any notice thereon or introduce any fittings, fixtures, furniture or
impediments of any kind without the authority of the Market Master, and any such thing introduced without his authority may be removed
by the Market Master.

Use of stalls

46. No person shall occupy or use a stall so long as any charges which are due and payable for the use thereof are outstanding.

Charges for stalls

47. The Council may, by resolution, from time to time, make a charge for the hire or use of stalls and other space at the market,
such resolution to take effect from the date on which notification of the effect thereof is first posted in the market.

Stall receipts and prices to be exhibited

48. Every stall holder shall exhibit and keep exhibited on his stall while the same is in use, his current receipt for the payment
of the market charges in such manlier as the Market Master shall direct and in such position that it can conveniently be read and
inspected at all times by the Market Master or any attendant, and shall have all produce and handicrafts for sale by him at such
stall legibly and conspicuously marked with the prices at which he offers the same for sale in a manner clearly to indicate that
price to the public.

Exchange, subletting and sharing of stalls

49. No stallholder shall exchange, sublet, surrender or part with the possession of his stall or share his stall with another vendor
or person except with the permission of the Market Master.

Advertising and auctions

50. No person shall in the market advertise goods by shouting, or conduct a sale by auction except with the permission of the Market
Master.

Selling mixed yaqona prohibited

51. No person shall sell or offer for sale mixed yaqona in any part of the market without the prior approval of the Council.

Cooking in the market

52. No person shall do any cooking in any part of the market without the prior approval of the Council.

Intoxicating liquor prohibited

53. No person shall bring into the market any intoxicating liquor or methylated spirit.

Unwholesome products

54. No person shall bring into the market anything which in the opinion of the Market Master is bad, obnoxious, unwholesome or dangerous,
and the Market Master may remove or cause to be removed any such thing brought within the precincts of the market.

Hygiene

55. Stallholders shall keep their produce and expose it for sale in as hygienic a manner as is practicable and shall obey all reasonable
directions of the Market Master in this regard.

Cleanliness

56. Stallholders shall keep their stalls in a clean and orderly condition, and shall, as and when required, dispose of any litter,
empty containers and refuse as directed by the Market Master. Any stallholder refusing or neglecting to obey the reasonable directions
of the Market Master under the provisions of this by-law may, in addition to any fine to which he may be liable under the provisions
of these By-laws lawfully be refused the allocation of a stall by the Council or the Market Master.

Dogs prohibited

57. No person shall bring a dog into the market or suffer it to remain there, and the Market Master shall have power to remove or
order the removal of any dog from the market.

Spitting

58. No person shall spit or discharge any nasal fluid or mucus on to any roadway, footpath, floor or other part of the market or any
utensils, produce, article or thing standing or being in the market.

Disease

59. No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease or having recently been exposed to infection by such a disease shall
engage in the sale of any goods in the market.

Restriction on entry

60. No person shall enter or remain in the market outside the hours during which the market is open for business without the authority
of the Market Master.

Obstruction of officials

61. No person shall obstruct, prevent, hinder or interfere with the Market Master or any attendant in the performance of any duty
under the provisions of this Part and no person shall enter the market whilst drunk or excite a not or curse or swear or use any
gross, indecent, filthy or abusive language or gamble or be guilty of any other misconduct therein.

Obstruction of market

62. No person shall place any matter or thing on any roadway, footpath or passage in the market so as to obstruct the free use of
such roadway, footpath or passage or neglect or refuse to remove such matter or thing on being required to do so by the Market Master.

Unsold goods

63.—(1) Goods unsold at the close of the day may be left in the market at the owner's risk with the permission of the Market
Master, and any goods so left without such permission may be removed by the Market Master and disposed of in such manner as he may
consider reasonable.

(2) With his consent goods may be left in the care of the Market Master upon payment in advance of a charge to be prescribed by the
Council.

Offences

64. Any person contravening or failing to comply with the provisions of this Part, other than those of by-laws 36, 41, 44, 47 and
63, shall be guilty of an offence.

PART VIII—LIBRARIES

Offences

65. Any person who—

(a) wilfully obstructs the librarian in the performance of his duties;

(b) wilfully disturbs any other use of the library;

(c) causes or allows any dog or other animal belonging to him or under his control to enter or remain in the library;

(d) bring into any part of the library any wheeled vehicle or conveyance, other than an invalid's chair or child's perambulator;

(e) except in such place as the Council may set aside as a place where smoking is permitted, smokes tobacco or strikes any naked light
in the library;

(f) wilfully soils, tears out, defaces, damages, injures or destroys any book forming part of the contents of the library;

(g) except with the permission of the librarian, fixes any bill, placard or notice to or upon any part of the library;

(h) except with the permission of the Council, partakes of any food or drink in the library,

shall be guilty of an offence.

Taking of books

66. No person shall, except in accordance with rules to be made by the Council Board under the provisions of these By-laws, take any
book away from the library, and any person contravening the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Return of books

67. Any person having charge or being in possession of any book forming part of the contents of the library shall return such book
to the librarian within seven days of the service upon him of a notice requiring him so to do, and any person contravening the provisions
of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Rules and charges

68. The Council may, by resolution—

(a) make rules relating to the use of the library or any part thereof or with regard to the borrowing of any book therefrom;

(b) levy a charge for the use of any book in the library;

(c) levy a charge in respect of the late return of any book.

PART IX—STREET NUMBERING(Inserted by Local Government Notice 7 of 1968.)

Street numbering

69.—(1) Where the Council decides that numbers shall be affixed on land or on or to buildings for the purpose of designating
and numbering such land or building in any road or street, the owners or occupiers of such land or buildings shall be informed of
the Council's intention to affix such numbers at least twenty-one days before they are affixed by the publication of a notice in
the Gazette and in two consecutive editions of any newspaper published in Fiji and circulating within the town area.

(2) Where any employee of the Council has affixed any number on any land or on or to any building for the aforesaid purpose, it shall
be an offence for any person unlawfully to remove, deface, mutilate or tamper with such number.

(3) It shall be an offence for any person to obstruct any person who enters any land or building under the instructions of the Council
in order to inspect, affix, reaffix or change such numbers.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 7 of 1968.)

PART X—MISCELLANEOUS

Penalty

70. Any person guilty of an offence under the provisions of these By-laws shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,
or in the case of a continuing offence to a fine of $4 for each day during which such offence continues, and, in addition to any
such penalty, any expense incurred by the Council in consequence of any breach of these By-laws shall be refunded by such person
to the Council.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 14 of 1975.)

FIRST SCHEDULE(By-law 21)(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

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NADI TOWN COUNCIL

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NADI TOWN BY-LAWS(By-law 21)

APPLICATION FOR LICENCE FOR OMNIBUS, TAXI OR GOODS VEHICLE TO USE THE NADI BUS STATION, TAXI OR GOODS VEHICLE STAND

I/We .............................................. of ........................ hereby apply for a licence for my/our under-mentioned
vehicle(s) to use the Nadi Bus Station, Taxi or Goods Vehicle Stand:

I/We agree to pay the licence fees prescribed under and to comply with the provisions of the Nadi Town By-laws.

Dated this day of , 19 .

...............................(Operator)

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SECOND SCHEDULE(By-law 22)(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977.)

NADI TOWN COUNCIL

NADI TOWN BY-LAWS(By-law 22)

LICENCE TO USE NADI BUS STATION, TAXI OR GOODS VEHICLE STAND

.......................... of ............................................................ Bus/Taxi/Goods Vehicle operator is hereby
licensed to use the Nadi Bus Station/Taxi Stand/Goods Vehicle with the following vehicles subject to the Nadi Town By-laws.

Make ..................................................................No. of Passengers ..............................

Dated this day of , 19 .

For the Nadi Town Council

....................................(Town Clerk)

THIRD SCHEDULE(By-law 23)(Substituted by Local Government Notice 3 of 1977; amended by Legal Notice 155 of 1978.)

Fees

$ c

1. For each visit of a motor omnibus to the bus station ............................

0.08

2. For each taxi or goods vehicle of wheelbase not exceeding 15 feet in length ....................................................................................................

4.00 per month

3. For each goods vehicle of wheelbase of 15 feet or more in length .........

5.00 per month

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FOURTH SCHEDULE(By-law 32)(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of I969.)

FORM A

NADI TOWN COUNCIL

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NADI TOWN BY-LAWS

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APPLICATION FOR DANCE HALL LICENCE(By-law 32)

I/We ............................................................. of ...................................................... hereby
apply for a licence for a period of one year/ ..................................................... days to use ...............................................................................................................

(Premises)

for the purpose of ...................................................................................................... between
the hours of ...................................and ........................................................ on ................................

Licence is hereby granted to .................................................................................... to use ..................................................................................................
as a dance hall for the purpose of ..............................................................................................................

(Nature of entertainment)

This licence is valid for a period of one year/ .........................days from the date of issue and is granted subject to the
following conditions:—

1. The licensed premises may be used for the above purpose on ......................... but not before the hour of .....................................................................................
nor after the hour of..................................... on any such days and not at any time on Sundays, Good Friday or Christmas Day.

Dated this .......................... day of ..................................,19.....

For the Nadi Town Council,

............................................Town Clerk

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SECTION 122—NADI TOWN COUNCIL (MEETINGS) BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Powers to call meetings

PART II—NOTICES OF MEETINGS

4. Form of notices5. Mode of service6. Time of service

PART III—ORDER OF BUSINESS

7. Order and conduct of business

PART IV—CONDUCT OF MEETINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

Division 1—Quorum

8. Quorum9. Adjournment for want of quorum10. Particulars to be recorded in minutes11. Suspension of proceedings

Division 2—Chairman

12. Absence of Chairman, etc.13. Chairman may take part in proceedings14. Rulings by Chairman15. Basis of ruling may be stated16. Chairman to be heard without interruption

Division 3—Order

17. Points of order, etc.18. Members to use official designations19. Chairman to call on members to speak20. Personal reflections, etc.21. Acts of disorder22. Withdrawal of member23. Removal of member24. Adjournment when disorder arises25. Projection of matter out or order26. Resumption of consideration of interrupted matter

Division 4—Voting and Divisions

27. Voting28. Divisions

Division 5—Debates

29. Motions to be seconded30. Withdrawal of motions31. Amendment of motions32. Motions and amendments to be in writing33. Order of moving amendments34. Motion as amended may be amended35. When amendment negatived, further amendment may be moved36. Right to speak and right to reply37. Right to reserve speech38. Debate confined to matter under consideration39. Member may require motion, etc., to be read or records to be produced40. Resolutions to be reduced to writing and read aloud

Division 6—Adjournment of Meetings

41. Adjournment to later hour or later day42. Motions for adjournment43. Resumption of debate after adjournment

Division 7—Revoking or Amending Resolutions

44. Written notice required of motion to amend or revoke a resolution45. Notice to be given of motion having same effect as negatived motion46. Notice of motion to be signed in certain cases47. Restriction on motions48. Motions of adjournment expected

PART V—SPECIAL MEETINGS AND ELECTION OF MAYOR

49. Special meetings50. Election of mayor51. Result of election to be notified

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Nadi Town Council (Meetings) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires:—

"council" means Nadi Town Council.

"Act" means Local Government Act.

"town clerk" means town clerk of the council appointed under section 35 of the Act and in his absence shall include the Acting Town Clerk.

"committee" means committee appointed under section 27 of the Act and shall include sub committees or 'ad hoc' committees.

"whole number of members" means the total number of elected councillors on the council as the Electoral Commission may from time to
time by order determine under section 9 of the Act.

Powers to call meetings

3. The mayor may call special meetings; and if he refuses or delays to call a special meeting after receiving a requisition signed
by at least three councillors of the council such members may in writing request the town clerk to call such meeting, and shall at
the same time state the object thereof. The town clerk shall thereupon call such meeting.

PART II—NOTICES OF MEETINGS

Form of notices

4. All notices to attend meetings of the council shall be in writing and shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting. To such
notices for ordinary meetings shall be attached a copy of every motion of which notice has been duly given to be moved there at.
Notices to attend a special meeting shall also contain a brief statement of the business for which the meeting is called.

Mode of service

5. The town clerk shall send to each member of the council one notice as aforesaid for each meeting, by messenger or by post.

Time of service

6. Such notices shall be sent so as to reach each member's last known place of business or abode at least 3 clear days before the
day fixed for the meeting.

PART III—ORDER OF BUSINESS

Order and conduct of business

7.—(1) The business shall be presented at all ordinary meetings of the council in the following order:—

(a) reading and confirmation of the minutes of the last ordinary meeting and of all special meetings held subsequently thereto. No discussion
shall be permitted concerning any minutes except as to their accuracy as a record of the proceedings;

(b) Chairman's minutes—the chairman shall have the right of directing attention at any meeting to any matter or subject within
the jurisdiction or official cognizance of the council by a minute signed by himself, and such minute shall, when introduced, take
precedence over all business before or to come before the council and the adoption thereof may be put by him from the chair as a
motion, without being seconded;

(c) petitions—all petitions shall be received only as petitions of the party or parties signing the same. On the presentation of
a petition no debate shall take place until notice thereof has been given in the usual manner, and the only question that shall be
entertained by the council on the day of its presentation shall be that the petition be received or that it be referred to a committee;

(d) the town clerk shall submit to the council all correspondence which cannot be dealt with departmentally in pursuance of any standing
order for general, or special, authority or direction made or given by the council:

Provided that the council may require or the chairman may direct that all or any correspondence in connection with any matter be produced
and read at any meeting;

(e) reports of committees—if in a report of a committee distinct recommendations are made, the decision of the council may be taken
separately on each recommendation. Any report of a committee or any portion thereof, may be amended by the council in any manner
it may think fit, or may referred back to the committee for further consideration. The recommendations of any committee, when adopted
by the council, shall be resolutions of the council;

(f) reports of officers;

(g) questions—sufficient notice of every question shall be given to permit consideration of the reply thereto and, if necessary,
reference to other persons or to documents.

Every such question shall be put categorically, and without any argument. No discussion shall be permitted respecting any reply or
refusal to reply to any question;

(h) motions of which due notice has been given—each such motion shall be in writing signed by the member proposing the same, and
delivered to the town clerk not later than ten o'clock on the date fixed for the service of the notices to attend the council meeting.
Copies of such motions shall be sent to the members with the said notices. No motion after being placed on the business paper shall
be withdrawn without the consent of the council. This by-law shall also apply to motions being considered at Special Council Meetings;

(i) any business which the chairman may think fit to bring under consideration without notice.

(2) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this by-law, the council may, by specific vote, determine to proceed to any particular
business out of the regular order and a motion for such a vote may be made without notice and shall take precedence over all other
business.

PART IV—CONDUCT OF MEETINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

Division 1—Quorum

Quorum

8.—(1) All acts of a council and of any committee thereof and all questions coming or arising before a council or any committee
therefore may be done and decided by the majority of such members or the council or committee as are present at a meeting held in
pursuance of this act or of any regulation or by-law made thereunder, the whole number present at the meeting (whether voting or
not) being not less than one half of the number of members of the council or of the committee as the case may be when that number
is even or a majority or such number if odd.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sections 21 and 34 of the Act, in the case of equality of votes the person presiding at any meeting of the council or any committee thereof shall have
a second or casting vote.

Adjournment for want of quorum

9. If at the expiration of 15 minutes after the time at which any meeting of the council is appointed to be held, a quorum shall not
be present, the meeting shall not be held but shall stand adjourned until such time later in the day or until such day and time as
shall be fixed by the chairman or, in his absence, by the majority of the members present.

Particulars to be recorded in minutes

10. At all meetings of the council when there is not a quorum of the members present, such circumstances, together with the names
of the members present, shall be recorded in the minute book.

Suspension of proceedings

11. If at any time during the sitting of the Council the attention of the chairman be called by a member or by the town clerk to the
fact that there is not a quorum present, the chairman shall thereupon suspend the proceedings for a period of three minutes, and
if a quorum be not present then, the names of those who are present shall be recorded in the minutes, and the chairman shall adjourn
the sitting to some hour latter in the day or to some future day, and the meeting shall stand adjourned accordingly.

Division 2—Chairman

Absence of chairman, etc.

12. If at expiration of 15 minutes after the time appointed for any duly convened meeting of the council or a committee, the chairman
or deputy chairman (as the case may be) is absent, such councillor as may be elected by the council or committee shall preside.

Chairman may take part in proceedings

13. The chairman may take part in all proceedings of a meeting at which he presides unless prevented to do so under section 17 of the act.

Rulings by chairman

14. The chairman shall preserve order. His ruling shall be given and obeyed without discussion or comment, and shall be final unless
any member fortherwith moves a motion of dissent therefrom. Such motion if seconded shall be put without discussion.

Basis of ruling may be stated

15. The chairman, when deciding points of order or practice, may state the provision, rule or practice which he deems applicable to
the case without discussing or commenting upon the same.

Chairman to be heard without interruption

16. When the chairman rises in his place during the progress of a debate, any member then speaking or offering to speak shall immediately
resume his seat, and every member shall preserve strict silence, so that the chairman may be heard without interruption.

Division 3—Order

Order

17. Any member may at any time call the attention of the chairman to any member being out of order or to any other point of order.

Members to use official designations, etc.

18. Members shall on all occasions when in Council or committee address and speak to each other by their official designations, as
chairman, acting chairman, or member, as the case may be, and, with the exception of the chairman, shall rise in their place and
stand while speaking (except when prevented from so doing by bodily infirmity) and shall address the chair.

Chairman to call on members to speak

19. If two or more members rise to speak at the same time the chairman shall decide which of them shall be first heard.

Personal reflections, etc.

20. No member shall make personal reflections on, or impute improper motives to, any other member or officer.

Acts of disorder

21. Any member who at any meeting of the Council or of any committee commits a breach of any act or by-law, or who moves or attempts
to move any motion or amendment embodying any matter beyond the legal jurisdiction of the Council or committee, or who in any other
way raises or attempts to raise any question or addresses or attempts to address the council or committee upon any subject which
the council or committee has no legal right to entertain or to discuss, or who uses any language which according to the common usage
of gentlemen would be held disorderly, or who makes use of any expression inconsistent with good order and decorum, or who is offensive
or abusive, or who says or does anything calculated to bring the Council or committee into contempt, shall be guilty of an act of
disorder.

Withdrawal of member

22. Any member who, having been called to order by the chairman for any act of disorder, commits a further act of disorder shall,
upon the request of the chairman, withdraw from the council room or council chamber for the remainder of the sitting.

Removal of member

23. In the event of a member declining to withdraw from the council room or council chamber on being required so to do by the chairman,
the chairman may order his removal until the termination of the sitting.

Adjournment when disorder arises

24. If disorder arises at any meeting, the chairman may adjourn the meeting for a period of fifteen minutes and quit the chair. The
council on reassembling, shall, on question put from the chair, decide without debate whether the business shall be proceeded with
or not.

Rejection of matter out of order

25. Whenever it has been decided that any motion, amendment or other matter is out of order, the same shall be rejected.

Resumption of consideration of interrupted matter

26. Whenever the consideration of any motion or matter of business has been interrupted by reason of a quorum not having been present,
such consideration shall be resumed at the point at when it was so interrupted in its proper order of business at the next regular
meeting of the Council.

Division 4—Voting

Voting

27. The Chairman shall put all questions and declare the sense of the council thereon, and he may put the question as often as necessary
to enable him to decide the voting. The members shall vote by a show of hands unless otherwise required by the Act and if any member
who is entitled to vote on the question neglects or refuses to do so his vote shall be counted for the negative. The decision of
the chairman as to the voting shall be final and conclusive unless it be immediately challenged and a member rises and demands a
division.

Divisions

28. Upon a division being called for, the question shall be first put in the affirmative and then in the negative, and the chairman
and all members present shall vote by show of hands and the names and votes of the chairman and members present shall be recorded
in the minutes of the Town Clerk. The vote of any member of the council present when a division is called for who does not in the
manner above indicated vote on such division, not being disable by law from so voting, shall be counted for the negative.

Division 5—Debates

Motions to be seconded

29. No motion shall be debated unless it has been seconded.

Withdrawal of motions

30. When a motion has been proposed and seconded it shall become subject to the control of the council, and shall not be withdrawn
without the consent of the council.

Amendment of motions

31. When a motion has been proposed and seconded, any member shall be at liberty to move an amendment thereon, but no such amendment
shall be debated unless or until it has been seconded.

Motions and amendment to be in writing

32. No motion or amendment shall be debated unless or until it has been reduced to writing, if the chairman so directs.

Order of moving amendments

33. No second or subsequent amendment shall be taken into consideration until the previous amendment has been disposed of.

Motion as amended may be amended

34. If an amendment has been carried, the motion as amended thereby shall become itself the motion before the council, whereupon any
further amendment upon such motion may be moved.

When amendment negatived, further amendment may be moved

35. If an amendment whether upon an original motion or upon any motion amended as aforesaid has been negatived, then a further amendment
may be moved to the motion to which such first mentioned amendment was moved, and so on:

Provided that not more than one motion and one proposed amendment thereof shall be before the council at any one time.

Right to speak and right of reply

36. The mover of an original motion shall have the right of general reply to all observations which have been made in reference to
such motion and of any amendment moved thereon, as well as the right to speak upon every such amendment. Each member other than the
mover of an original motion shall have the right to speak once upon such motion and once upon every amendment moved thereon. No member
shall, without the consent of the council, speak more than once upon any motion, or for longer than ten minutes at any time unless
he claims to have been misrepresented or misunderstood, in which case he may be permitted to explain without adding any further observation
that may be necessary for the purpose of such explanation.

Right to reserve speech

37. A member who has moved any motion or amendment, other than a motion for adjournment of the debate, shall be deemed to have spoken
thereon; but any member who has seconded any motion or amendment, without any further observation than that he seconds the same,
may reserve his speech thereon for a later period of the debate.

Debate confined to matter under consideration

38. Every member speaking shall confine his remarks to the matter then under consideration.

Member may require motion, etc., to be read or records to be produced

39. Any member may request the motion or matter under discussion to be read or stated for his information, or may request the production
of any records of the council bearing upon such motion or matter as are readily accessible:

Provided that:

(a) no such request shall be so made as to interrupt any other member when speaking or to materially interrupt the discussion;

(b) if any such request appears to the chairman not to have been made in good faith he may decline to comply therewith; but the council
may dissent from his ruling.

Resolution to be reduced to writing and read aloud

40. Any resolution of the council or of any committee shall forthwith on adoption be written down by the town clerk who shall then
read such resolution aloud before the council or committee passes to the next business.

Division 6—Adjournment of Meetings

Adjournment to later hour or later day

41. A debate may be adjourned to a later hour of the same day or to another day specified.

Motions for adjournment

42. No discussion shall be permitted upon any motion for adjournment of the council. If upon the question being put on any such motion
the same is negatived, the subject then under consideration, or next on the business paper, shall be discussed; and it shall not
be competent for any member to move again a motion for adjournment until half an hour has elapsed from the time of moving the one
that has been negatived.

Resumption of debate after adjournment

43. On resuming any discussion which has been adjourned, the mover of such adjournment shall be entitled, if he has not already spoken
on the subject under consideration, to speak first.

Division 7—Revoking or Amending Resolutions

Written notice required of motion to amend or revoke a resolution

44. No resolution which has been passed by the council may be amended or revoked unless—

(a) written notice of motion to propose any such amendment or revocation is served on each member at least three days prior to the date
of the meeting at which such proposal is to be moved;

(b) such motion is passed by a majority of the whole number of members:

Provided that any resolution may be amended or revoked by way of a recommendation of a committee to the council and minutes of such
committee meeting is circulated to members at least 3 clear days before the meeting at which the recommendation is to be adopted
and also such minutes to specify in what form the resolution is being amended.

Notice to be given of motion having same effect as negatived motion

45. Where a motion has been negatived by the council, no motion having the same effect shall be considered unless notice thereof be
duly given.

Notice of motion to be signed in certain cases

46. A notice of motion to amend or revoke a resolution, and a notice of motion which has the same effect as a motion which has been
negatived by the council shall be signed by three members, if less than three months have elapsed since the resolution was passed,
or the motion negatived, as the case may be.

Restriction on motions

47. Where a motion to amend or revoke a resolution has been negative, or where a motion which has the same effect as a previously
negatived motion is negatived, no similar motion shall be brought forward within six months thereafter, and the effect of this provision
shall not be evaded by substituting any motion differently worded but having in principle the same effect:

Provided that any such motion as aforesaid may be moved at any time upon the report of the committee of the council, and such report
shall be specially mentioned in the minutes.

49. The business paper for each special meeting shall contain only such matters as have been stated in the notice thereof.

50. Nominations for the office of the mayor, may be made without notice by any member. If there be only one person nominated, or if
all the nominations except one be withdrawn or all the persons nominated except one deline nomination, then that one person shall
be declared elected.

Result of election to be notified

51. As soon as practicable after each election of mayor, the town clerk shall communicate the result in writing to the Minister responsible
for Local Government affairs.

PART VI—COMMITTEES

Division 1—Committees of the Whole

Committees of the whole

52. The council may, for the consideration of any matter, resolve itself into a committee of the whole. All the provisions of these
By-laws, so far as they are applicable, shall be extended to and govern all proceedings in committee of the whole, except the provisions
limiting the number and duration of speeches.

Committee to report to council

53. All reports of proceedings in committee of the whole shall be made to the council by the chairman of such committee, and it shall
be sufficient to state the general effect thereof. All such reports shall be recorded in the minute book, but no report shall be
considered as adopted by the council until a motion has been put and carried for such adoption.

Division 2—Standing Committees

Constitution of Committees

54. Standing committee appointed in pursuance of section 27 of the act shall be appointed annually as soon as practicable after the annual election of the Mayor and shall consist of such number
of members as the council shall decide.

Chairman of committee

55. Each committee, other than a committee of the whole, shall appoint its own chairman for its term of office:

Provided that the Mayor shall ex officio be a member of every committee.

Meetings of committees

56. The town clerk shall summon meetings of committees when directed by the mayor, or chairman of the committee, and shall give as
much notice thereof as practicable to the members.

Absence

57. If any member of a standing committee shall absent himself from three consecutive meetings thereof, without having obtained leave
of absence from the council or the committee, his seat shall become vacant, and the council may appoint another member in his stead.

Finance Committee

58. The Finance Committee shall examine and check all accounts, and shall watch generally over the collection and expenditure of the
council's revenue. They shall also from time to time inquire into, and report upon, all matters which, in their opinion, affect or
are likely to affect the finances of the council, and also such matters of like nature as they may be directed by resolution of the
council to inquire into and report upon.

Division 3—General

Special committees

59. The appointment of every special committee shall be deemed to continue until the duties for which the committee has been appointed
have been fully performed.

Reports

60. Committee reports submitted to the council shall be signed by the chairman of the committee.

Communications

61. No committee shall communicate with any outside person or authority except through the town clerk, as the officer of the council
duly authorised for the purpose.

Confidential business

62. All matters dealt with or brought before the council in committee, or before any committee of the council, shall be strictly confidential
and no information shall, unless the committee transacting the business or the council on reference thereon by such committee otherwise
determines, be disclosed to any person outside the council except to approved press representatives under embargo against publication
until the matters in question have been made public by the council.

PART VII—MISCELLANEOUS

Keeping of minutes

63. The minutes of all meetings of the council and of all committees shall be transcribed by or under the direction of the town clerk
into minute books, which shall be preserved as permanent records of the council.

Authentication of minutes

64. Upon the minutes being approved at any meeting aforesaid the chairman shall sign his name at the end thereof and initial all corrections
therein and the date shall be entered against his signature. If the minutes be kept in a "loose leaf" book the chairman shall sign
each sheet of the minutes as confirmed.

Offences

65. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of by-laws 23 or 62 of these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence
and on conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $40 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both
such fine and imprisonment.

The area defined in the Schedule shall be a town for the purposes of the Local Government Act and shall be known as the town of Nausori

SCHEDULE

Commencing on the left bank of the Rewa River at a point determined by the production southerly of the eastern side of Buresova Street;
thence northerly and following the left bank of the Rewa River upstream for approximately 112 chains to a point determined by the
production westerly of the northern boundary of the Nausori Industrial Area shown on Lands Department Plan R. 1763; thence easterly
on a bearing of 59 degrees 36 minutes crossing Kings Road to a concrete peg at the north-western corner of the said Nausori Industrial
Area; thence continuing easterly on a bearing of 59 degrees 36 minutes for a distance of 2347.7 links; thence southerly by a line
bearing 185 degrees 38 minutes distance 1839.6 links said line being parallel to and distant 200 links east from the eastern side
of the 40 foot road east of the said Nausori Industrial Area; thence by line bearing 158 degrees 43 minutes for a distance of 503.4
links to a concrete peg at the northern corner of Certificate of Title No. 10602; thence generally south-easterly by lines bearing-

128

degrees

21

minutes

distance

355.2

links

132

"

11

"

"

1834.4

"

61

"

05

"

"

249.1

"

97

"

23

"

"

420.6

" and

159

"

04

"

"

970.1

"

to a concrete peg at the eastern corner of C.T. No. 10602; thence north-easterly by line bearing 48 degrees 33 minutes distance 7
chains approximately to the right bank of the Waicuku Creek at the northern corner of Native Grant No. 94; thence generally southerly
and following the said right bank of the Waicuku Creek downstream for approximately 57 chains to a point opposite the most northerly
corner of Nasevaseva Native Lease Book 38 Folio 192; thence crossing the said Waicuku Creek by line bearing 70 degrees distance 160
links approximately to the said most northerly corner of Native Lease Book 38 Folio 192; thence by lines bearing-

122

degrees

27

minutes

0

seconds

distance

352.1

links

55

"

20

"

0

"

"

1161.6

"

145

"

20

"

0

"

"

210.0

"

55

"

20

"

0

"

"

313.4

"

145

"

20

"

0

"

"

310.0

"

235

"

20

"

0

"

"

210.0

"

140

"

28

"

0

"

"

1272.5

"

230

"

28

"

0

"

"

708.3

"

140

"

28

"

0

"

"

60.6

"

230

"

28

"

0

"

"

762.0

" and

204

"

04

"

30

"

"

500.0

"

to the left bank of the Rewa River and being the point of commencement; and being more particularly delineated on Plans D.O. 132 and
D.O. 206 held in the office of the Director of Lands.

Together with—

Area I

All that area of land in the tikina of Naitasiri in the Province of Naitasiri, situated on the right bank of the Rewa River and extending
in varying widths to the maximum width of approximately 50 chains, from the Rewa Bridge northward for approximately 70 chains and
southward for approximately 50 chains.

Area II

All that area of land in the tikina of Bau in the Province of Tailevu, situated on the left bank of the Rewa River and extending in
varying widths to the maximum width of approximately 45 chains, from the Rewa Bridge northward for approximately 100 chains and southward
for approximately 60 chains, but excluding the areas contained in approved Native Reserve Claim Number 366, and all that area already
defined.

Both these areas are shown verged red and are more particularly delineated on plan PP 117 kept in the office of the Permanent Secretary
for Lands and Mineral Resources in Suva, and available for inspection at the office of the Permanent Secretary for Urban Development
and Housing and at the office of the Nausori Town Council.

And together with—

Area III

All that area of land in the tikina of Naitasiri in the Province of Naitasiri situated on the right bank of Rewa River on the south
western end of Dilkusha Road and extending approximately 13 chains south west from the western boundary of the notified Nausori town
boundary and approximately 26 chains south east along the said boundary south east of survey plan DP. 2686.

Area IV—

All that area of land in the tikina of Naitasiri in the Province of Naitasiri situated on the right bank of Rewa River extending in
a northerly direction from the northern end of the notified Nausori town boundary for approximately 18 chains and in a westerly direction
in varying widths to the maximum width of 15 chains.

Both these areas are shown verged red and are more particularly delineated on Plan PP 175 kept in the office of the Director of Lands
and Surveyor-General, Suva and available for inspection at the office of the Director of Town and Country Planning in Suva and the
office of the Nausori Town Council at Nausori.

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SECTION 5—NAUSORI WARDS ORDER

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title2. Division of Nausori into wards

Local Government Notice No. 32 of 1973

Short title

1. This Order may be cited as the Nausori Wards Order.

Division of Nausori into wards

2. The town of Nausori is hereby divided into 2 wards, namely—

(i) the Nausori Ward comprising all that portion of the town of Nausori situated on the north-eastern side of the Rewa River; and

(ii) the Davuilevu Ward comprising all that portion of the town of Nausori situated on the south-western side of the Rewa River.

SECTION 9—NUMBER OF TOWN COUNCILLORS ORDER

Local Government Notices Nos. 7 of 1972, 34 of 1973, 40 of 1973

The number of members of the town councils named in the Schedule and, where the towns are divided into wards, the number of members
for each ward shall, with effect from the next general elections to such councils, be as specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Nausori Town Council

—10 members, as follows:-

Nausori Ward

—6 members

Davuilevu Ward

—4 members

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SECTION 122—NAUSORI (HAWKERS) BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Hawkers to be licensed4. Application for licence5. Council may refuse, cancel or suspend licence6. Issue of licence7. Effect of licence8. Duration of licence9. Hawkers badge to be issued10. No hawking outside specified area11. Allocation of spaces12. Duties and obligations of hawker13. Penalties

First Schedule—Application for Hawker's Licence

Second Schedule—Hawker's Licence

Local Government Notices Nos. 3 of 1973, 8 of 1974,Legal Notices Nos. 43 of 1981, 27 of 1982

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Nausori (Hawkers) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"Council" means the Nausori Town Council;

"goods" means—

(a) any food or drink other than liquor;

(b) cigarettes, cigars, tobacco and matches;

(c) curios and handicrafts, including mats, baskets, fans, articles made of straw and grass skirts;

(vii) wares of other Pacific islands origin, but not including any produce, article or thing made, manufactured, prepared in, or originating
from any territory outside Fiji with the exception of the articles specified in paragraph (g);

"hawker" means a person who by going from place to place sells goods carried on his person or from a handcart, box, basket, bag, tray
and the like, or from a boat, horsedrawn vehicle, bicycle, motor vehicle or any other type of conveyance;

"officer" means the Town Clerk, any health inspector appointed by the Council, or any officer or servant of the Council in the performance
of any duty under these By-laws.

(Amended by Legal Notice 43 of 1981.)

Hawkers to be licensed

3. No person shall within the town follow the calling of a hawker or hawk for sale any article whatsoever (whether or not such article
falls within the definition of "goods" contained in by-law 2) unless he shall be the holder in his own name of an unexpired hawker's
licence issued by the Council.

Application for licence

4. Every person desirous of obtaining a hawker's licence shall make application in person in writing to the Town Clerk in the form
in the First Schedule.

Council may refuse, cancel or suspend licence

5. The Council may refuse to grant a hawker's licence to any person, and the licence of any hawker may be suspended or cancelled for
any good cause after giving the holder thereof due opportunity of being heard.

Issue of licence

6. Upon receiving an application mentioned in by-law 4 and subject to such directions as he may receive from the Council, the Town
Clerk may issue to the applicant, without payment of fee, a licence in the form set out in the Second Schedule.

(Substituted by Legal Notice 43 of 1981.)

Effect of licence

7. A hawker's licence issued by the Council under by-law 6 shall authorise only the hawking and sale of such goods or classes of goods
as are endorsed on the licence.

Duration of licence

8. Hawkers' licences shall be issued for a period of one year.

Hawkers badge to be issued

9. With every hawker's licence the Town Clerk shall issue to the licensee a badge of metal which shall be inscribed "Nausori Town
Council Licensed Hawker" and with the number of the licence, for which the licensee shall deposit with the Council the sum of $2.
This deposit shall be refunded to the licensee upon his surrendering such badge to the Council.

No hawking outside specified area

10. No licensed hawker shall hawk in any place outside such area or areas as shall be specified by the Council.

Allocation of spaces

11. The Council may, at its discretion, allocate or provide spaces to licensed hawkers, at a fee of $6 per month for each space.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 8 of 1974; amended by Legal Notice 27 of 1982.)

Duties and obligations of hawker

12. A licensed hawker shall—

(a) hawk only such goods of classes of goods as are endorsed on his licence;

(b) at all times when hawking carry his licence with him and shall on demand produce the same to any police officer or officer of the
Council;

(c) at all times whilst hawking wear the badge referred to in by-law 9;

(d) not remain stationary in any road, street or place unless he is effecting a sale of his goods;

(e) if by remaining stationary in any road, street or place whilst effecting a sale of his goods he shall cause any obstruction to pedestrian
or other traffic, forthwith move away from such road, street or place in such manner as effectively to remove such obstruction;

(f) when using a handcart or vehicle of any kind to keep such handcart or vehicle as near as practicable to the left hand side of the
road or street;

(g) cease to hawk any goods intended for human consumption while he is suffering from any infection, contagious or offensive disease
or skin complaint.

Penalties

13. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of by-law 3, 10 or 12 shall be guilty of an offence and shall
be liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding $20.

FIRST SCHEDULE(By-law 4)

NAUSORI TOWN COUNCIL

APPLICATION FOR HAWKER'S LICENCE UNDER NAUSORI (HAWKERS) BY-LAWS

Name of Applicant:

Address:

Class of goods hawked:

Dated this ________ day of _________________, 19____.

Applicant.

_____________________

SECOND SCHEDULE(By-law 6)

NAUSORI TOWN COUNCIL

HAWKER'S LICENCE

Licence No.:

Issued under Nausori (Hawkers) By-laws.

Name of Licensee:

Address:

Class of goods hawked:

Date of application:

Date licence expires:

Date:

Town Clerk and Licensing Officer.

SECTION 122—NAUSORI (LITTER) BY-LAWS.

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Prohibition4. Powers of an authorised person5. Provision for an identity card6. Penalties7. Evidence in legal proceedings

Local Government Notice No. 30 of 1973

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Nausori (Litter) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws unless the context otherwise requires—

"abandon" includes to throw, to drop, to deposit, to place, to scatter, to spill, to leave, to cast or otherwise to part with possession;

"authorised person" means a person appointed by the Council to be an authorised person for the purpose of these By-laws or any police
officer;

"Council" means the Nausori Town Council;

"litter" means any matter or thing whether solid or liquid or partly solid or partly liquid the possession of which has been abandoned
by any person having the control of the same in any street or land or public place, and includes building, household, shop, garden
and trade refuse or waste; human, animal, fish and vegetable refuse or waste; containers and packaging of any description whether
manufactured in whole or in part of wood, glass, metal, paper or plastic; derelict vehicles, household, shop and factory furniture,
appliances and machinery or any part thereof; timber, wood, glass, iron, concrete, sand, earth, gravel, stone and clay; or any matter
or thing which causes or contributes to or tends to the defacement or defilement of any street, land or public place.

Prohibition

3. No person shall abandon or cause to be abandoned any litter in or upon any street, public place or land save under the authority
of and/or in accordance with the requirements of any law for the time being in force.

Powers of an authorised person

4. An authorised person may require the person whom he finds committing or whom he reasonably suspects to be committing or to have
committed an offence against these By-laws to state his full name and usual place of residence.

Provision for an identity card

5. Every authorised person other than a member of the Police Force shall be issued with an identity card by the Council wherein shall
be specified the name of the authorised person to whom it is issued and the fact that he is an authorised person for the purpose
of these By-laws, and in the exercise of his powers and functions under these By-laws an authorised person shall carry an identity
card and, should the circumstances require it, exhibit it for the purpose of his identification.

Penalties

6. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of these By-laws, shall be guilty of an offence under these By-laws
and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10 and to a further fine of $2 for every day during which such contravention
or non-compliance continues.

Evidence in legal proceedings

7. In any proceedings for an offence against these By-laws—

(a) the onus of proof that any litter has not been abandoned shall be on the defendant;

(b) a statement in the complaint that a place referred to therein is a street or a part of a street or a public place or open to use
by the public or is a place of public resort open to use by the public as of right shall be evidence, and in the absence of evidence
to the contrary, conclusive evidence of the matters contained therein.

SECTION 122—NAUSORI TOWN BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART I—PRELIMINARY

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation

PART II—SANITATION

3. Clearing of scrub, brushwood or undergrowth4. Public drains, etc.5. Private drains6. Council may undertake work7. Collection and disposal of garbage8. Latrines and privies9. Cleaning of streets10. Obstructing, etc., an offence

PART III—PUBLIC PARKS

11. Exclusive user of public parks may be granted12. Method of application and approval13. Council may retain exclusive user of any public park14. Charges may be made for admission15. Gatekeeper, etc., to be employed by the Council16. Failure to pay charge for admission17. Fairgrounds18. Hours of entry19. Public parks

PART IV—BUS STATION, TAXI STAND, LORRY STAND

20. Management of bus station, etc.21. Licence to use bus station, etc.22. Licences23. Fees24. Payment of fees25. Bus station or stand not to be used without licence26. Revocation of licence27. Control of bus station, etc.28. Prohibition of vehicles with oil leaks in bus station

First Schedule —Application for Licence to Use Nausori Bus Station, etc.

Second Schedule —Licence to Use Nausori Bus Station, etc.

Third Schedule —Fees

Fourth Schedule —Application for Dance Hall Licence and Licence

Fifth Schedule —Market Charges

By-laws 5 September 1966, Local Government Notice Nos. 6 of 1968, 13 of 1969,2 of 1972, Legal Notice No. 85 of 1972, Local Government Notices Nos. 36 of 1973,37 of 1973, 13 of 1975, 23 of 1976, Legal Notices Nos. 133 of 1978, 156 of 1979,21 of 1981, 17 of 1982, 28 of 1982, 12 of 1983, 72 of 1983

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Nausori Town By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws unless the context otherwise requires—

"attendant" means any servant of the Council appointed by the Council, or any other person duly authorised by the Council, to carry
out duties in the market;

"authorised" means duly authorised by the Council;

"bus shelter" means any shelter owned and controlled by the Council for the use of bus passengers in the town of Nausori;

"bus station" means the Nausori Bus Station maintained and controlled by the Council being more particularly defined and delineated
in yellow on plan No. R.1813 lodged in the Department of Lands, together with the whole of the footpath situated on the northern
boundary thereof and extending for the whole length of the bus station;

"council" means the Nausori Town Council;

"dance hall" means any hall, house, room, garden or other place kept or used, other than on an isolated occasion or during the course
of religious festivals, for public dancing, singing, music or other public entertainment of a similar nature, but does not include
any licensed hotel or licensed cinematograph theatre;

"dump" means the area of land used by the Council for the disposal of garbage;

"fish" means all edible aquatic animals and foods other than shell-fish and turtles;

"lorry" means any light or heavy goods vehicle plying for hire for the carriage of any cargo for reward;

"lorry stand" means the lorry stand at Nausori maintained and controlled by the Council being more particularly defined and delineated
in yellow on plan No. R.1853 lodged in the Department of Lands;

"loud speaker" includes a megaphone and any other device for amplifying sound;

"market" means the place established as a market in the town of Nausori;

"market kava saloon" means that part of the market kiosk situated on the south eastern corner of the market and set aside for the
purpose of selling and serving of yaqona;

"Market Master" means the Market Master appointed by the Council and includes a deputy duly appointed by the Council;

"market refreshment bar" means that part of the market kiosk set aside for the purpose of selling and serving of refreshments;

"motor omnibus" means a public service vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than six passengers excluding the driver;

"offensive matter" means and includes offal, night soil, putrid meat, entrails of fish or poultry, carrion, blood, dung, manure, shells,
bones, rags, fruit or vegetable refuse, soap lees, impure water and any other matter giving off an offensive odour or being in any
way a nuisance or likely to be injurious to health;

"operator" includes any person, firm, company or organization which owns or operates a motor omnibus, a taxi or a lorry;

"poultry" means any edible live bird;

"produce" means fish, fresh fruit and vegetables, rice, split peas, dried pulses, and goods of that nature, live poultry, and other
edible birds and eggs and includes any agricultural or forest product being an article of food or drink in an unprepared state and
also includes locally grown tobacco, locally made wares, such as baskets and mats and articles of that nature;

"stall" means any place within the market where produce or handicrafts are sold or offered for sale;

"supplier" means a person who supplies produce to a miller, manufacturer or processor;

"taxi" means a public service vehicle, other than an omnibus, constructed or adapted to carry passengers;

"taxi stand" means the taxi stand at Nausori maintained and controlled by the Council, being more particularly defined and delineated
in yellow on plan No. 1813 lodged in the Department of Lands, together with the whole of the footpath situated on the northern boundary
thereof and extending for the whole length of the taxi stand.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 13 of 1969; Legal Notice 133 of 1978; 72 of 1983.)

PART II—SANITATION

Clearing of scrub, brushwood or undergrowth

3.—(1) The Council or an authorised officer thereof may serve upon the owner, occupier or lessee of any land (whether built
upon or not) within the town, a notice requiring him to keep such land clear of all scrub, brushwood, undergrowth and garbage, and
maintain such land in a sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Council or of an authorised officer thereof.

(2) Any owner, occupier or lessee of any land failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

Public drains, etc.

4.—(1) No person shall throw or deposit, or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited, any refuse, garbage or offensive matter
or any other kind of matter of a type likely to cause an obstruction, into any public culvert, drain, ditch, sewer or waterway.

(2) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

Private drains

5.—(1) The owner, occupier or lessee of any building, premises or land, shall construct such drains as the Council may, by notice,
require for the effectual removal of all storm, slop and waste water from such building, premises or land.

(2) Such drains shall be properly connected to a public drain or to such other outlet approved by the Council, and shall be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition.

(3) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraphs (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

Council may undertake work

6. If any owner, occupier or lessee of any building, premises or land shall fail to comply with a notice given under the provisions
of by-laws 3 or 5 within such time as the Council may in such notice prescribe, the Council may undertake the work and the cost thereof
shall be a debt due to the Council and may be sued for before a court of competent jurisdiction.

Collection and disposal of garbage

7.—(1) Garbage shall be deposited only in garbage pans supplied by the occupier and approved by the Council or an authorised
officer thereof and such garbage pans shall be in accordance with the requirements of Part X of the Public Health Regulations and
shall be fitted with one or more handles.

(See Cap. 111.)

(2) No person, other than a servant of the Council, shall collect garbage without the permission in writing of the Council.

(3) No person, other than a servant of the Council, shall deposit or cause or permit any other person to deposit any garbage or any
other refuse of any kind at the dump without the permission in writing of the Council, or an authorised officer thereof, and only
at such times and places and in such a manner as the Council or an authorised officer thereof may direct.

(4) Garbage receptacles shall be placed at the side of the road taken by the collecting vehicle, or in such other place as the Council
or any authorised officer thereof may permit in respect of any particular premises, in which case the owner of such premises shall
provide an easy means of access thereto for removal of garbage.

(5) The occupier of any residence, shop, business premises or other building where there may be an accumulation of kitchen refuse
or decomposing matter of any kind shall provide the number of garbage receptacles required by the local authority.

(6) Any person committing any breach of the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence and, in addition to any penalty
to which he is liable under the provisions of by-law 66, shall remove or cause to be removed such garbage or other refuse in such
a manner and within such time as the Council or an authorised officer thereof may direct:

Latrines and privies

8.—(1) The owner of any dwelling-house, business premises, lodging house or any place where persons are accommodated or labour
is employed shall construct latrines or privies of such type and number as the Council may, by notice, require.

(2) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

Cleaning of streets

9.—(1) No person shall upon any street or public place throw or deposit or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited any offensive
matter, tins or refuse of any description.

(2) The occupier of any business premises shall not allow trade goods, cases, boxes, barrels or any merchandise of any description
to remain on any street.

(3) No person shall permit any cattle, horse, sheep, pig or goat to graze within the town without the written consent of the Clerk
or any person authorised by the Council. (Amended by Legal Notice 85 of 1972.)

(4) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Obstruction, etc., an offence

10. Any person who obstructs, molests or hinders any officer or servant of the Council in the execution of his duty or who uses violent
or threatening language to or attempts in any way whatsoever to intimidate such servant or who endeavours by any bribe, threat or
promise to cause any such servant to neglect or exceed his duty, shall be guilty of an offence.

PART III—PUBLIC PARKS

Exclusive user of public parks may be granted

11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these By-laws, the Council may grant permission to any sporting, social or other organisation
or body to have exclusive use of the whole or any part of any public park on any particular day or days for purposes approved by
the Council and may give such organisation or body power to levy charges for admission:

Provided that—

(a) notwithstanding the grant of any such permission, the Council may, in its absolute discretion, revoke such permission to enable the
public park to be used for other purposes in connection with a special occasion;

(b) the Council may, in its absolute discretion at any time, declare any public park to be unusable, in which case the flying of a red
flag and the posting of a notice declaring such park to be unusable, at the entrance to the park shall be deemed to be sufficient
notice to all persons that the park is unusable.

(2) Any person using any public park for sporting, recreational or social purposes when such park has been declared to be unusable
shall be guilty of an offence.

Method of application and approval

12.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), any application for the grant of exclusive user of any public park shall
be made to the Clerk not less than fourteen days before the day, or the first of the days, when such user is required and shall be
subject to approval by resolution of the Council.

(2) Where, by reason of special circumstances, it is not possible for an application to be made at least fourteen days before the
user, or first user, of any park is required, such application may be made to the Clerk who shall consult the Mayor, whose decision
shall be deemed to be the decision of the Council and shall be reported to the Council at the next meeting thereof.

Council may retain exclusive user of any public park

13.—(1) The Council may, by resolution, retain to itself the exclusive user of the whole or any part of any public park on any
special occasion.

(2) The Council may from time to time set aside any public park or any portion thereof for use as a children's playground and install
therein equipment for use by children in which event the Council may prohibit the use of such equipment by persons of above such
age as the Council may, by resolution, determine.

Charges may be made for admission

14. The Council may, by resolution from time to time—

(a) make a charge to be paid by the organisation or body to which permission has been granted for the exclusive user of any public park
or any part thereof under the provisions of by-law 11, which charge may be a lump sum or a percentage of the gross gate receipts;
or

(b) make a charge to be paid by members of the public on any occasion when the Council retains to itself the exclusive user of any public
park or any part thereof.

Gatekeeper, etc., to be employed by the Council

15.—(1) The Council shall provide a gatekeeper and such other persons as may be necessary for the purpose of controlling admission
to any public park, the collection of admission charges and the sale of tickets whenever the Council, by resolution, makes a charge
based on a percentage of gross gate receipts under the provisions of paragraph (a) of by-law 14.

(2) The gatekeeper shall be responsible to the Council for certifying the gross gate receipts, and the charges referred to in paragraph
(1) shall be calculated in accordance with such certificate and be deducted from such receipts. All such charges shall thereupon
be paid by the gatekeeper to the Clerk.

Failure to pay charge for admission

16. Any person who shall enter or remain within the bounds of any public park or any part thereof without having paid any lawful charge
made for admission thereto under the authority of these By-laws, or who shall neglect or refuse to pay such charge on demand, may
forthwith be removed therefrom and shall be guilty of an offence.

Fairgrounds

17.—(1) No fair, circus or amusement park run for profit shall be established at any place nor shall any equipment be installed
in any fairground or amusement park run for profit except with the permission in writing of the Council and on payment of such fees
as the Council may; by resolution, from time to time, prescribe, and subject to such conditions as the Council may, by resolution,
impose.

(2) The Council or its officers shall at all times have access to the place prescribed and shall have the right to inspect all equipment
used therein.

(3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) or who fails to observe any condition imposed by the Council under
such provisions shall be guilty of an offence.

Hours of entry

18.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), any person may enter any public park at any time.

(2) The Council may, by resolution, prescribe particular hours during which any public park, other than a reserve, shall remain closed
in which case the Council shall cause a notice to be posted or affixed in a prominent place in such park specifying details of such
hours.

(3) Any person who shall enter or remain within any public park during the hours specified under the provisions of paragraph (2) without
the general or specific permission of the Clerk may forthwith be removed therefrom and shall be guilty of an offence.

Public parks

19.—(1) No person other than an authorised officer or servant of the Council shall in any public park—

(a) cut, pluck, injure or destroy any turf, tree, bush, shrub, flower, plant or other thing in or upon any part thereof, or dig, cut
or remove any sod, turf, loam, sand, gravel or other substance thereon or therefrom;

(b) negligently or wilfully injure, deface or remove any seat, notice, notice board, post, chair, railing, fence, barrier or other thing
which may from time to time be erected or placed therein by or with the authority of the Council;

(f) wilfully interfere with the authorised user thereof or with any game or sport permitted by the Council therein;

(g) sell or offer or expose for sale any food or other goods therein without the prior permission of the Council or an authorised officer
thereof;

(h) deliver or read any public lecture, prayer, sermon or address of any kind or hold or take part in or cause any public assemblage
without the prior permission of the Council, and then only at such times and places as the Council may permit;

(i) draw, take or drive any truck, car, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, wheelbarrow, carriage or other vehicle, other than an invalid's
chair or child's perambulator or push-cart, therein without the prior permission of the Council or an authorised officer thereof;

(j) bathe, wade or wash in any pond or pool therein or wilfully or negligently foul or pollute the water of any such pond or pool, or
take, injure or destroy, or attempt to take, injure or destroy any fish in any such pond or pool;

(k) throw or deposit, or cause, or suffer to be thrown or deposited in a pavilion therein any litter, garbage or offensive matter, except
in a receptacle provided by the Council for that purpose;

(l) aid in or abet any act or thing which may not be specifically mentioned in these By-laws and which may tend to the injury or disfigurement
thereof or to interfere with the use and enjoyment thereof by the public for the purpose of exercise or recreation.

(2) No person shall in any public park-

(a) play at or engage in any game or exercise in such a manner as to injure any path, turf, tree, shrub, flower, plant, building or other
structure or thing therein or upon any part thereof;

(b) wilfully obstruct any officer or servant of the Board in the execution of any work in connection with such public park.

(3) Any person contravening or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

PART IV—BUS STATION, TAXI STAND, LORRY STAND

Management of bus station, etc.

20. The bus station, taxi stand and lorry stand shall be under the immediate management and control of the Clerk:

Provided that the Council may appoint an attendant or attendants to exercise control over the bus station and any one or more stands
and with such functions with regard thereto as the Council may, by resolution, determine.

Licence to use bus station, etc.

21. Each operator desiring to use the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand shall make application, in the form set out in the First
Schedule, for a licence for his motor omnibus, taxi or lorry to use the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand.

Licences

22. All licences to use the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand shall be issued on behalf of the Council by the Clerk and in the
form of licence set out in the Second Schedule and shall have effect in respect only of the motor omnibus, taxi or lorry described
therein.

Fees

23.—(1) The licence fees for the use of the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand by a motor omnibus, taxi or lorry shall be
in accordance with the fees set out in the Third Schedule and shall be collected and charged in accordance with the provisions of
the succeeding paragraphs of this by-law.

(2) The licence fees referred to in paragraph (1) shall be chargeable in such manner as the Council shall prescribe and, where expressed
to be chargeable over any period, shall be payable in arrear. (Substituted by Local Government Notice 36 of 1973.)

(3) In respect of motor omnibuses, the licence fees to be charged for any such period shall be computed on the total number of visits
of the motor omnibus to the bus station during the period and shall be calculated from the time-table approved by the Transport Control
Board in respect of the road service licence under which the motor omnibus shall have been operating during the period or from any
other information which the Transport Control Board shall think fit to supply to the Clerk from its records or from any other information
obtained by the Clerk under the provisions of paragraph (4). (Amended by Local Government Notice 36 of 1973.)

(4) If the Clerk considers that the number of visits to the bus station of any motor omnibus cannot be satisfactorily calculated from
any time-table, he may, by written notice, require the bus operator concerned to supply him with particulars of the number of visits
to the bus station and the times thereof of each motor omnibus operating under the bus operator's road service licence during the
month the subject of the computation; and any bus operator so required shall within 7 days after the receipt by him of such notice,
deliver to the Clerk a written statement, signed by such operator or under his authority, and containing a true and correct statement
of that total number of visits to the bus station, and the times thereof of each such motor omnibus during the said period. (Amended by Local Government Notice 36 of 1973.)

(5) All licence fees payable to the Council under the provisions of these By-Laws shall be recoverable by the Council as civil debts
by due process of law.

Payment of fees

24. Each operator shall pay to the Council the licence fees payable by him within 15 days after he has been notified of the amount
thereof.

Bus station not to be used without licence

25.—(1) No operator shall be entitled to use the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand for the purpose of any motor omnibus,
taxi or lorry unless he holds a valid licence issued under the provisions of these By-Laws in respect of such motor omnibus, taxi
or lorry.

(2) No motor omnibus, taxi or lorry shall enter or use the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand at any time unless a valid licence
issued under the provisions of these By-Laws is held by the operator in respect thereof and any person who contravenes the provisions
of this paragraph shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) No operator shall be entitled to use the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand while any licence fees owing by him under the
provisions of these By-Laws remain unpaid after the due date.

Revocation of licence

26. The Council may revoke the licence of any operator who fails to pay by the due date any licence fees payable by him or who is
convicted of any offence under the provisions of this Part.

Control of bus station, etc.

27.—(1) No person shall without the written authority of the Council sell or offer or expose for sale any produce or goods in
or around the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand.

(2) No person shall place or deposit in or on any motor omnibus, taxi or lorry standing in the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand
any placard, handbill, advertisement or notice without prior consent of the owner or driver of such motor omnibus, taxi or lorry.

(3) No person shall display in or on the bus station, taxi stand or lorry stand or any bus shelter any placard, handbill, advertisement
or notice, pamphlet, book or paper without the prior consent of the Council and on such terms and conditions as the Council shall
by resolution, determine.

(4) Any person contravening the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Prohibition of vehicles with oil leaks in bus station

28.—(1) No operator shall permit any vehicle which leaks oil of any description to enter into or stand in the bus station.

(2) Any person contravening the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 2 of 1972.)

PART V—NOISE PREVENTION

Noise prevention

29.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), no person shall sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument or operate
a loud speaker in any street, public park or any other park, garden, recreation area, sports ground or reserve to which the public
have access, or in any vehicle in any street therein.

(2) This by-law shall not apply—

(a) to the operation of a loud speaker for military or police purposes;

(b) to the sounding or playing of musical instruments by a band or musician playing with the prior permission of the Council;

(c) to the operation of a loud speaker or the sounding or playing of a musical or noisy instrument at a pleasure fair held with the prior
permission of the Council;

(d) to the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument or the operation of any loud speaker in a procession or public assembly
if permission for such instrument or loud speaker has been given under the provisions of the Public Order Act;

(Cap. 20.)

(e) to the operation of any mobile cinema van by any department of Government or by any person with the prior permission of the Council;

(f) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument operated or played with the prior
permission of the Council, at any sporting, recreational, social, religious or charitable assembly, event or fixture, conducted with
the prior permission of the Council under the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 11, or sub-paragraph (h) of paragraph (1) of by-law 19;

(g) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument, operated or played with the prior
permission of the Council, at any sporting, recreational, social, religious or charitable assembly, event or fixture, conducted in
any park, garden, recreation area, sports ground or reserve, other than a public park, to which the public have access;

(h) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any noisy or musical instrument in any place in respect of which
the Council has granted exemption, either generally or on any particular occasion;

(i) to the operation of any loud speaker in case of emergency.

(3) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

PART VI—DANCE HALLS(Inserted by Local Government Notice 13 of 1969.)

Dance halls to be licensed

30.—(1) No person shall, within the town keep or use or permit to be kept or used any dance hall without first obtaining from
the Council a licence in respect thereof on payment of an annual fee of $6:

Provided that a licence may be granted for any period not exceeding thirty days upon payment of a fee of $2.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), no dance hall may be used as such on a Sunday, on Good Friday or on Christmas
Day.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 13 of 1969.)

Exemptions

31.—(1) No licence shall be required for the use of the Nausori Town Hall as a dance hall.

(2) The Council may by resolution exempt from the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 30 any club the main purpose of which is to
provide entertainment for its members, but which occasionally holds entertainments which are open to the public if the Council is
satisfied that such exemption is not likely to result in annoyance to or disturbance of the public.

(3) The Council may by resolution revoke any exemption granted under the provisions of paragraph (2) if annoyance to or disturbance
of the public has occurred.

(Inserted by Local Government Notice 13 of 1969.)

Licences

32.—(1) Any person desirous of obtaining a licence under the provisions of these By-laws shall make application to the Clerk
in Form A set out in the Fourth Schedule.

(2) The Council may grant a licence to any person as it shall think fit upon such terms and conditions and subject to such restrictions
as it may consider appropriate. Any licence, other than one issued under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of by-law
30, shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date of issue.

(3) A licence issued under the provisions of this by-law shall be in Form B set out in the Fourth Schedule.

Transfer of licence

33. Upon the application of any licensee, the Clerk may permit the transfer of any licence issued under the provisions of these By-laws
to such other person as he may consider appropriate.

Refusal, revocation, etc., of licence

34.—(1) The Council may refuse to grant a licence to any person or in respect of any premises or may revoke or suspend or amend
any licence on any grounds which it considers sufficient.

(2) Where it is proposed that a licence be refused, revoked, suspended or amended under the provisions of paragraph (1), the Council
shall give to the applicant or the licensee, as the case may be, fourteen days' notice in writing of the meeting of the Council at
which the refusal, revocation, or suspension is to be considered and in such notice the Council shall set out the grounds upon which
consideration is being given to such refusal, revocation or suspension.

(3) No licence shall be refused, revoked, suspended or amended by the Council unless the applicant or the licensee has been given
an opportunity of being heard by the Council.

Offences

35. Any person who contravenes the provisions of by-law 30 or any licensee who fails to comply with any condition of a licence granted
to him under these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence.

PART VI—MARKET

Market Master

36. The market shall be under the immediate management and control of the Market Master, who shall be appointed by and be responsible
to the Council.

Produce which may be sold

37. No person, except the holder of a wholesale or retail store licence or a butcher's licence issued under the provisions of any
Act relating to the licensing of businesses, shall sell or offer for sale any produce, other than fresh fish, or shell-fish in any
place within the town, other than in the market:

Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the sale of produce—

(a) by any producer, to a miller, manufacturer or processor where such produce is sold within the confines of property in the occupation
of such producers or of such miller, manufacturer or processor; or

(b) by any miller, manufacturer or processor to any of his employees or suppliers where such produce is sold within the confines of property
in the occupation of such miller, manufacturer or processor.

Cleaning, and gutting fish

38. No person shall bring to the market or offer for sale in the market any fish, other than whitebait or other similar small fish,
unless such fish shall first have been gutted, gilled and cleaned.

Fresh fish

39. During the hours in which the market is open for business no person shall sell by retail fresh fish at any place outside the market:

Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the sale of fresh fish wholesale, or by a butcher or fishmonger or a retail or wholesale
store holder, licensed under the provisions of any Act for the time being in force relating to the licensing of businesses.

Restriction on sales

40. No person shall sell or offer for sale in the market any article other than produce or handicrafts.

Hours of business

41. The market shall be open for business during such hours as the Council may direct.

Directions given by Market Master

42. All persons using or being within the precincts of the market shall obey all reasonable directions given by the Market Master
for the purpose of observing the good order and cleanliness of the market.

Sales prohibited except from stalls

43. No person shall sell or offer for sale any article in the market except at a stall allotted to him by the Council or the Market
Master and during the hours that the market is open for business.

Allocation of stalls

44. The allocation of stalls in the market shall be made by the Council or the Market Master in as fair and reasonable a manner as
possible.

Alterations to stalls

45. No person shall make any alteration to a stall or exhibit any notice thereon or introduce any fittings, fixtures, furniture or
impediments of any kind without the authority of the Market Master, and any such thing introduced without his authority may be removed
by the Market Master.

Use of stalls

46. No person shall occupy or use a stall so long as any charges which are due and payable for the use thereof are outstanding.

Charges

47.—(1) The charges for the use of stalls and other market facilities shall be in accordance with the rates specified in the
Fifth Schedule and shall be payable in advance on demand by the Marker Master or an attendant.

(2) Upon the receipt by the Market Master or an attendant of the payment of any charge under this by-law, he shall issue a receipt
accordingly.

(Substituted by Legal Notice 72 of 1983.)

Stall receipts and prices to be exhibited

48. Every stall holder shall exhibit and keep exhibited on his stall while the same is in use, his current receipt for the payment
of the market charges in such manner as the Market Master shall direct and in such position that it can conveniently be read and
inspected at all times by the Market Master or any attendant, and shall have all produce and handicrafts for sale by him at such
stall legibly and conspicuously marked with the prices at which he offers the same for sale in a manner clearly to indicate that
price to the public.

Exchange, subletting and sharing of stalls

49. No stallholder shall exchange, sublet, surrender or part with the possession of his stall or share his stall with another vendor
or person except with the permission of the Market Master.

Advertising and auctions

50. No person shall in the market advertise goods by shouting, or conduct a sale by auction except with the permission of the Market
Master.

Selling mixed yaqona prohibited

51. No person shall sell or offer for sale mixed yaqona anywhere in the market other than in the market kava saloon.

52. No person shall do any cooking in any part of the market without the prior approval of the Council.

Intoxicating liquor prohibited

53. No person shall bring into the market any intoxicating liquor or methylated spirit.

Unwholesome products

54. No person shall bring into the market anything which in the opinion of the Market Master is bad, obnoxious, unwholesome or dangerous,
and the Market Master may remove or cause to be removed any such thing brought within the precincts of the market.

Hygiene

55. Stallholders shall keep their produce and expose it for sale in as hygienic a manner as is practicable and shall obey all reasonable
directions of the Market Master in this regard.

Cleanliness

56. Stallholders shall keep their stalls in a clean and orderly condition, and shall, as and when required, dispose of any litter,
empty containers and refuse as directed by the Market Master. Any stallholder refusing or neglecting to obey the reasonable directions
of the Market Master under the provisions of this by-law may, in addition to any fine to which he may be liable under the provisions
of these By-Laws lawfully be refused the allocation of a stall by the Council or the Market Master.

Dogs prohibited

57. No person shall bring a dog into the market or suffer it to remain there, and the Market Master shall have power to remove or
order the removal of any dog from the market.

Spitting

58. No person shall spit or discharge any nasal fluid or mucus on to any roadway, footpath, floor or other part of the market or any
utensils, produce, article or thing standing or being in the market.

Disease

59. No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease or having recently been exposed to infection by such a disease shall
engage in the sale of any goods in the market.

Restriction on entry

60. No person shall enter or remain in the market outside the hours during which the market is open for business without the authority
of the Market Master.

Obstruction of officials

61. No person shall obstruct, prevent, hinder or interfere with the Market Master or any attendant in the performance of any duty
under the provisions of this Part and no person shall enter the market whilst drunk or excite a riot or curse or swear or use any
gross, indecent, filthy or abusive language or gamble or be guilty of any other misconduct therein.

Obstruction of market

62. No person shall place any matter or thing on any roadway, footpath or passage in the market so as to obstruct the free use of
such roadway, footpath or passage or neglect or refuse to remove such matter or thing on being required to do so by the Market Master.

Unsold goods

63.—(1) Goods unsold at the close of the day may be left in the market at the owner's risk with the permission of the Market
Master, and any goods so left without such permission may be removed by the Market Master and disposed of in such manner as he may
consider reasonable.

(2) With his consent goods may be left in the care of the Market Master upon payment in advance of a charge to be prescribed by the
Council.

Offences

64. Any person contravening or failing to comply with the provisions of this Part, other than those of by-laws 36, 41, 44, 47 and
63, shall be guilty of an offence.

PART VIII—STREET NUMBERING(Inserted by Local Government Notice 6 of 1968.)

Street numbering

65.—(1) Where the Council decides that numbers shall be affixed on land or on or to buildings for the purpose of designating
and numbering such land or building in any road or street, the owners or occupiers of such land or buildings shall be informed of
the Council's intention to affix such numbers at least twenty-one days before they are affixed by the publication of a notice in
the Gazette and in two consecutive editions of any newspaper published in Fiji and circulating within the town area.

(2) Where any employee of the Council has affixed any number on any land or on or to any building for the aforesaid purpose, it shall
be an offence for any person unlawfully to remove, deface, mutilate or tamper with such number.

(3) It shall be an offence for any person to obstruct any person who enters any land or building under the instructions of the Council
in order to inspect, affix, reaffix or change such numbers.

PART IX—MISCELLANEOUS

Penalty

66. Any person guilty of an offence under the provisions of these By-Laws shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,
or in the case of a continuing offence to a fine of $4 for each day during which such offence continues, and, in addition to any
such penalty, any expense incurred by the Council in consequence of any breach of these By-laws shall be refunded by such person
to the Council.

(Amended by Local Government Notice 13 of 1975.)

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FIRST SCHEDULE(By-law 21)

NAUSORI TOWN COUNCIL

NAUSORI TOWN BY-LAWS(By-Law 21)

APPLICATION FOR LICENCE FOR OMNIBUS, TAXI OR LORRY TO USE THE NAUSORI BUS STATION, TAXI OR LORRY STAND

I/We ................................................................................ hereby apply for a licence for my/our under-mentioned
vehicle(s) to use the Nausori Bus Station, Taxi or Lorry Stand:

I/We ............................................................. of .......................................................... hereby
apply for a licence for a period of one year/.............................................. days to use ...................................................................................................................
(premises)

for the purpose of ...................................................................................................... between
the hours of ..............................and ............................................................................. on ............................................
(days)

Signed .................................................Date ....................................................

____________

FORM B

NAUSORI TOWN COUNCIL

NAUSORI TOWN BY-LAWS

DANCE HALL LICENCE(By-law 32)

Licence is hereby granted to ........................................................................................ to use ...................................................................................................
as a dance hall for the purpose of .......................................................................................................
(nature of entertainment)

This licence is valid for a period of one year/ .............................. days from the date of issue and is granted subject
to the following conditions:-

The licensed premises may be used for the above purpose on ...................................... but not before the hour of ......................................................................
nor after the hour of ................................................................... on any such days and not at any time on
Sundays, Good Friday or Christmas Day.

2. Stalls for the sale of fish, shell fish or both fish and shell fish—a charge, per stall per day, calculated in relation to
the fish offered for sale from that stall on that day (whether brought into the market on that or a previous day) according to the
following scale:—

8. Quorum9. Adjournment for want of quorum10. Particulars to be recorded in minutes11. Suspension of proceedings

Division 2—Chairman

12. Absence of Chairman, etc.13. Chairman may take part in proceedings14. Rulings by Chairman15. Basis of ruling may be stated16. Chairman to be heard without interruption

Division 3—Order

17. Points of order, etc.18. Members to use official designations19. Chairman to call on members to speak20. Personal reflections, etc.21. Acts of disorder22. Withdrawal of member23. Removal of member24. Adjournment when disorder arises25. Projection of matter out of order26. Resumption of consideration of interrupted matter

Division 4—Voting and Divisions

27. Voting28. Divisions

Division 5—Debates

29. Motions to be seconded30. Withdrawal of motions31. Amendment of motions32. Motions and amendments to be in writing33. Order of moving amendments34. Motion as amended may be amended35. When amendment negatived, further amendment may be moved36. Right to speak and right to reply37. Right to reserve speech38. Debate confined to matter under consideration39. Member may require motion, etc., to be read or records to be produced40. Resolutions to be reduced to writing and read aloud

Division 6—Adjournment of Meetings

41. Adjournment to later hour or later day42. Motions for adjournment43. Resumption of debate after adjournment

Division 7—Revoking or Amending Resolutions

44. Written notice required of motion to amend or revoke a resolution45. Notice to be given of motion having same effect as negatived motion46. Notice of motion to be signed in certain cases47. Restriction on motions48. Motions of adjournment expected

PART V—SPECIAL MEETINGS AND ELECTION OF MAYOR

49. Special meetings50. Election of mayor51. Result of election to be notified

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Nausori Town Council (Meetings) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires:

"council" means Nausori Town Council;

"Act" means Local Government Act;

"town clerk" means town clerk of the council appointed under section 35 of the Act and in his absence shall include the acting town clerk or assistant town clerk;

"committee" means committee appointed under section 27 of the Act and shall include subcommittees or 'ad hoc' committees;

"whole number of members" means the total number of elected councillors on the council as the Electoral Commission may from time to
time by order determine under section 9 of the Act.

Powers to call meetings

3. The mayor may call special meetings; and if he refuses or delays to call a special meeting after receiving a requisition signed
by at least 3 councillors of the council such members may in writing request the town clerk to call such meeting, and shall at the
same time state the object thereof. The town clerk shall thereupon call such meeting.

PART II—NOTICES OF MEETINGS

Form of notices

4. All notices to attend meetings of the council shall be in writing and shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting. To such
notices for ordinary meetings shall be attached a copy of every motion of which notice has been duly given to be moved thereat. Notices
to attend a special meeting shall also contain a brief statement of the business for which the meeting is called.

Mode of service

5. The town clerk shall send to each member of the council one notice as aforesaid for each meeting, by messenger or by post.

Time of service

6. Such notices shall be sent so as to reach each member's last known place of business or abode at least three clear days before
the day fixed for the meeting.

PART III—ORDER OF BUSINESS

Order and conduct of business

7.—(1) The business shall be presented at all ordinary meetings of the council in the following order:

(a) reading and confirmation of the minutes of the last ordinary meeting and of all special meetings held subsequently thereto. No discussion
shall be permitted concerning any minutes except as to their accuracy as a record of the proceedings;

(b) chairman's minutes—the chairman shall have the right of directing attention at any meeting to any matter or subject within
the jurisdiction or official cognizance of the council by a minute signed by himself, and such minute shall, when introduced, take
precedence over all business before or to come before the council and the adoption thereof may be put by him from the chair as a
motion, without being seconded;

(c) petitions—all petitions shall be received only as petitions of the party or parties signing the same. On the presentation of
a petition no debate shall take place until notice thereof has been given in the usual manner, and the only question that shall be
entertained by the council on the day of its presentation shall be that the petition be received or that it be referred to a committee;

(d) the town clerk shall submit to the council all correspondence which cannot be dealt with departmentally in pursuance of any standing
order for general, or special, authority or direction made or given by the council:

Provided that the council may require or the chairman may direct that all or any correspondence in connection with any matter be produced
and read at any meeting;

(e) reports of committees—if in a report of a committee distinct recommendations are made, the decision of the council may be taken
separately on each recommendation. Any report of a committee, or of any portion thereof, may be amended by the council in any manner
it may think fit, or may be referred back to the committee for further consideration. The recommendations of any committee, when
adopted by the council, shall be resolutions of the council;

(f) reports of officers;

(g) questions—sufficient notice of every question shall be given to permit consideration of the reply thereto and, if necessary,
reference to other persons or to documents. Every such question shall be put categorically, and without any argument. No discussion
shall be permitted respecting any reply or refusal to reply to any question;

(h) motions of which due notice has been given—each such motion shall be in writing signed by the member proposing the same, and
delivered to the town clerk not later than ten o'clock on the day fixed for the service of the notices to attend the council meeting.
Copies of such motions shall be sent to the members with the said notices. No motion after being placed on the business paper shall
be withdrawn without the consent of the council. This by-law shall also apply to motions being considered at Special Council Meetings;

(i) any business which the chairman may think fit to bring under consideration without notice.

(2) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this by-law, the council may, by specific vote, determine to proceed to any particular
business out of the regular order and a motion for such a vote may be made without notice and shall take precedence over all other
business.

PART IV—CONDUCT OF MEETINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

Division 1—Quorum

Quorum

8.—(1) All Acts of a council and of any committee thereof and all questions coming or arising before a council or any committee
therefore may be done and decided by the majority of such members of the council or committee as are present at a meeting held in
pursuance of this Act or of any regulation or by-law made thereunder, the whole number present at the meeting (whether voting or
not) being not less than one half of the number of members of the council or of the committee as the case may be when that number
is even or a majority of such number if odd.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sections 21 and 34B of the Act, in the case of equality of votes the person presiding at any meeting of the council or any committee thereof shall have
second or casting vote.

Adjournment for want of quorum

9. If at the expiration of fifteen minutes after the time at which any meeting of the council is appointed to be held, a quorum shall
not be present, the meeting shall not be held but shall stand adjourned until such time later in the day or until such day and time
as shall be fixed by the chairman or, in his absence, by the majority of the members present.

Particulars to be recorded in minutes

10. At all meetings of the council when there is not a quorum of the members present, such circumstances, together with the names
of the members present, shall be recorded in the minute book.

Suspension of proceedings

11. If at any time during the sitting of the council the attention of the chairman be called by a member or by the town clerk to the
fact that there is not a quorum present, the chairman shall thereupon suspend the proceedings for a period of three minutes, and
if a quorum be not present then, the names of those who are present shall be recorded in the minutes, and the chairman shall adjourn
the sitting to some hour later in the day or to some future day, and the meeting shall stand adjourned accordingly.

Division 2—Chairman

Absence of chairman, etc.

12. If at expiration of fifteen minutes after the time appointed for an duly convened meeting of the council or a committee, the chairman
or deputy chairman (as the case may be) is absent, such councillor as may be elected by the council or committee shall preside.

Chairman may take part in proceedings

13. The chairman may take part in all proceedings of a meeting at which he presides unless prevented to do so under section 17 of the Act.

Rulings by chairman

14. The chairman shall preserve order. His ruling shall be given and obeyed without discussion or comment, and shall be final unless
any member forthwith moves a motion of dissent therefrom. Such motion if seconded shall put without discussion.

Basis of ruling may be stated

15. The chairman, when deciding points of order or practice, may state the provision, rule or practice which he deems applicable to
the case without discussing or commenting upon the same.

Chairman to be heard without interruption

16. When the chairman rises in his place during the progress of a debate, any member then speaking or offering to speak shall immediately
resume his seat, and every member shall preserve strict silence, so that the chairman may be heard without interruption.

Division 3—Order

Points of order, etc.

17. Any member may at any time call the attention of the chairman to any member being out of order or to any other point of order.

Members to use official designations

18. Members shall on all occasions when in council or committee address and speak to each other by their official designations, as
chairman, acting chairman, or member, as the case may be; and, with the exception of the chairman, shall rise in their place and
stand while speaking (except when prevented from so doing by bodily infirmity) and shall address the chair.

Chairman to call on members to speak

19. If two or more members rise to speak at the same time the chairman shall decide which of them shall be first heard.

Personal reflections, etc.

20. No member shall make personal reflections on, or impute improper motives to, any other member or officer.

Acts of disorder

21. Any member who at any meeting of the council or of any committee commits a breach of any Act or by-law, or who moves or attempts
to move any motion or amendment embodying any matter beyond the legal jurisdiction of the council or committee, or who in any other
way raises or attempts to raise any question or addresses or attempts to address the council or committee upon any subject which
the council or committee has no legal right to entertain or to discuss, or who uses any language which according to the common usage
of gentlemen whould be held disorderly, or who makes use of any expression inconsistent with good order and decorum, or who is offensive
or abusive, or who says or does anything calculated to bring the council or committee into contempt, shall be guilty of an act of
disorder.

Withrawal of member

22. Any member who, having been called to order by the chairman for any act of disorder, commits a further act or disorder shall,
upon the request of the chairman, withdraw from the council room or council chamber for the remainder of the sitting.

Removal of member

23. In the event of the member declining to withdraw from the council room or council chamber on being required so to do by the chairman,
the chairman may order his removal until the termination of the sitting.

Adjournment when disorder arises

24. If disorder arises at any meeting, the chairman may adjourn the meeting for a period of fifteen minutes and quit the chair, The
council on reassembling, shall, on question put from the chair, decide without debate whether the business shall be proceeded with
or not.

Rejection of matter out of order

25. Whenever it has been decided that any motion, amendment or other matter is out of order, the same shall be rejected.

Resumption of consideration of interrupted matter

26. Whenever the consideration of any motion or matter of business has been interrupted by reason of a quorum not having been present,
such consideration shall be resumed at the point at which it was so interrupted in its proper order of business at the next regular
meeting of the council.

Division 4—Votings and Divisions

Voting

27. The chairman shall put all questions and declare the sense of the council thereon, and he may put the question as often as necessary
to enable him to decide the voting. The members shall vote by a show of hands unless otherwise required by the Act and if any member
who is entitled to vote on the question neglects or refuses to do so his vote shall be counted for the negative. The decision of
the chairman as to the voting shall be final and conclusive unless it be immediately challenged and a member rises and demands a
division.

Divisions

28. Upon a division being called for, the question shall be first put in the affirmative and then in the negative, and the chairman
and all members present shall vote by show of hands and the names and votes of the chairman and members present shall be recorded
in the minutes by the town clerk. The vote of any member of the council present when a division is called for who does not in the
manner above indicated vote on such division, not being disabled by law from so voting, shall be counted for the negative.

Division 5—Debates

Motions to be seconded

29. No motion shall be debated unless it has been seconded.

Withdrawal of motions

30. When a motion has been proposed and seconded it shall become subject to the control of the council, and shall not be withdrawn
without the consent of the council.

Amendment of motions

31. When a motion has been proposed and seconded, any member shall be at liberty to move an amendment thereon, but no such amendment
shall be debated unless or until it has been seconded.

Motions and amendment to be in writing

32. No motion or amendment shall be debated unless or until it has been reduced to writing, if the chairman so directs.

Order of moving amendments

33. No second or subsequent amendment shall be taken into ocnsideration until the previous amendment has been disposed of.

Motion as amended may be amended

34. If an amendment has been carried, the motion as amended thereby shall become itself the motion before the council, whereupon any
further amendment upon such motion may be moved.

When amendment negatived, further amendment may be moved

35. If an amendment whether upon an original motion or upon any motion amended as aforesaid has been negatived, then a further amendment
may be moved to the motion to which such first mentioned amendment was moved, and so on:

Provided that not more than one motion and one proposed amendment thereof shall be before the council at any one time.

Right to speak and right of reply

36. The mover of an original motion shall have the right of general reply to all observations which have been made in reference to
such motion and to any amendment moved thereon, as well as the right to speak upon every such amendment. Each member other than the
mover of an original motion shall have the right to speak once upon such motion and once upon every amendment moved thereon. No member
shall, without the consent of the council, speak more than once upon any motion, or for longer than ten minutes at any one time unless
he claims to have been misrepresented or misunderstood, in which case he may be permitted to explain without adding any further observation
that may be necessary for the purpose of such explanation.

Right to reserve speech

37. A member who has moved any motion or amendment, other than a motion for adjournment of the debate, shall be deemed to have spoken
thereon; but any member who has seconded any motion or amendment without any further observation than that he seconds the same, may
reserve his speech thereon for a later period of the debate.

Debate confined to matter under consideration

38. Every member speaking shall confine his remarks to the matter then under consideration.

Member may require motion etc., to be read or records to be produced

39. Any member may request the motion or matter under discussion to be read or stated for his information, or may request the production
of any records of the council bearing upon such motion or matter as are readily accessible:

Provided that:

(a) no such request shall be so made as to interrupt any other member when speaking or to materially interrupt the discussion;

(b) if any such request appears to the chairman not to have been made in good faith he may decline to comply therewith; but the council
may dissent from his ruling.

Resolution to be reduced to writing and read aloud

40. Any resolution of the council or of any committee shall forthwith on adoption be written down by the town clerk who shall then
read such resolution aloud before the council or committee passes to the next business.

Division 6—Adjournment of Meetings

Adjournment to later hour or later day

41. A debate may be adjourned to a later hour of the same day or to another day specified.

Motions for adjournment

42. No discussion shall be permitted upon any motion for adjournment of the council. If upon the question being put on any such motion
the same is negatived, the subject then under consideration, or next on the business paper, shall be discussed; and it shall not
be competent for any member to move again a motion for adjournment until half an hour has elapsed from the time of moving the one
that has been negatived.

Resumption of debate after adjournment

43. On resuming any discussion which has been adjourned, the mover of such adjournment shall be entitled, if he has not already spoken
on the subject under consideration, to speak first.

Division 7—Revoking or Amending Resolutions

Written notice required of motion to amend or revoke a resolution

44. No resolution which has been passed by the council may be amended or revoked unless:

(a) written notice of motion to propose any such amendment or revocation is served on each member at least three days prior to the date
of the meeting at which such proposal is to be moved;

(b) such motion is passed by a majority of the whole number of members:

Provided that any resolution may be amended or revoked by way of a recommendation of a committee to the council and minutes of such
committee meeting are circulated to members at least three clear days before the meeting at which the recommendation is to be adopted
and also such minutes to specify in what form the resolution is being amended.

Notice to be given of motion having same effect as negatived motion

45. Where a motion has been negatived by the council, no motion having the same effect shall be considered unless notice thereof be
duly given.

Notice of motion to be signed in certain cases

46. A notice of motion to amend or revoke a resolution, and a notice of motion which has the same effect as a motion which has been
negatived by the council shall be signed by three members, if less than three months have elapsed since the resolution was passed,
or the motion negatived, as the case may be.

Restriction on motions

47. Where a motion to amend or revoke a resolution has been negatived, or where a motion which has the same effect as a previously
negatived motion is negatived, no similar motion shall be brought forward within six months thereafter; and the effect of this provision
shall not be evaded by substituting any motion differently worded but having in principle the same effect:

Provided that any such motion as aforesaid may be moved at any time upon the report of the committee of the council, and such report
shall be specially mentioned in the minutes.

49. The business paper for each special meeting shall contain only such matters as have been stated in the notice thereof.

Election of Mayor

50. Nominations for the office of mayor, may be made without notice by any member. If there be only one person nominated, or if all
the nominations except one be withdrawn or all the persons nominated except one decline nomination, then that one person shall be
declared elected.

Result of election to be notified

51. As soon as practicable after each election of mayor, the town clerk shall communicate the result in writing to the Minister responsible
for Local Government affairs.

PART VI—COMMITTEES

Division 1—Committees of the Whole

Committees of the whole

52. The council may, for the consideration of any matter, resolve itself into a committee of the whole. All the provisions of these
By-laws, so far as they are applicable, shall be extended to and govern all proceedings in committee of the whole, except the provisions
limiting the number and duration of speeches.

Committee to report to Council

53. All reports of proceedings in committee of the whole shall be made to the council by the chairman of such committee, and it shall
be sufficient to state the general effect thereof. All such reports shall be recorded in the minute book; but no report shall be
considered as adopted by the council until a motion has been put and carried for such adoption.

Division 2—Standing Committees

Constitution of committees

54. Standing committee appointed in pursuance of section 27 of the Act shall be appointed annually as soon as practicable after the annual election of the Mayor and shal consist of such number
of members as the council shall decide.

Chairman of committee

55. Each committee, other than a committee of the whole, shall appoint its own chairman for its term of office:

Provided that the mayor shall ex officio be a member of every committee.

Meetings of committees

56. The town clerk shall summon meetings of committees when directed by the mayor, or chairman of the committee, and shall give as
much notice thereof as practicable to the members.

Absence

57. If any member of a standing committee shall absent himself from three consecutive meetings thereof, without having obtained leave
of absence from the council or the committee, his seat shall become vacant, and the council may appoint another member in his stead.

Finance Committee

58. The Finance Committee shall examine and check all accounts, and shall watch generally over the collection and expenditure of the
council's revenue. They shall also from time to time inquire into, and report upon, all matters which, in their opinion, affect or
are likely to affect the finances of the council, and also such matters of like nature as they may be directed by resolution of the
council to inqure into and report upon.

Division 3—General

Special Committees

59. The appointment of every special committee shall be deemed to continue until the duties for which the committee has been appointed
have been fully performed.

Reports

60. Committee reports submitted to the council shall be signed by the chairman of the committee.

Communications

61. No committee shall communicate with any outside person or authority except through the town clerk, as the officer of the council
duly authorised for the purpose.

Confidential Business

62. All matters dealt with or brought before the council in committee, or before any committee of the council, shall be strictly confidential
and no information shall, unless the committee transacting the business or the council on reference thereon by such committee otherwise
determines, be disclosed to any person outside the council except to approved press representatives under embargo against publication
until the matters in question have been made public by the council.

PART VII—MISCELLANEOUS

Keeping of minutes

63. The minutes of all meetings of the council and of all committee shall be transcribed by or under the direction of the town clerk
into minute books, which shall be preserved as permanent records of the council.

Authentication of minutes

64. Upon the minutes being approved at any meeting aforesaid the chairman shall sign his name at the end thereof and initial all corrections
therein and the date shall be entered against his signature. If the minutes be kept in a "loose leaf" book the chairman shall sign
each sheet of the minutes as confirmed.

Offences

65. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of by-laws 23 or 62 of these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence
and on conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $40 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both
such fine and imprisonment.

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION OF LOCAL APPLICATION

SAVUSAVU

SECTION 5—TOWN OF SAVUSAVU

Local Government Notices Nos. 26 of 1969, 16 of 1971, 23 of 1973

The area defined in the Schedule shall be a town for the purposes of the Local Government Act and shall be known as the town of Savusavu.

SCHEDULE

All that portion of land situated in the tikina of Nasavusavu in the province of Cakaudrove, extending generally westward, in varying
widths, from Savudrodro Valley Road to a point approximately half a mile west of the Government Wharf. Such area being shown verged
red and being more particularly delineated on Plan PP57 deposited in the office of the Director of Lands in Suva and available for
inspection at the office of the District Officer, Savusavu, together with all that piece of land in the tikina of Nasavusavu in the
Province of Cakaudrove situated north of the Naveria/Balaga Road in varying widths up to high water mark east of approved Native
Reserve Claim No. 66 being part of Lot 2 NLC. F/2-2 and west of Saverekareka Bay coloured orange on Plan PP85 deposited in the office
of the Director of Lands, Suva and available for inspection at the offices of the Savusavu Town Council and the District Officer,
Savusavu, and also all the area of land extending generally south-westerly, in varying widths, from the southern boundaries of Crown
Grant 76, known as Navunitavi, to approximately half a mile west of the Government wharf, and including the area of Nawi, Korovesa
and Nawi Lailai.

The above described area is shown verged red and is more particularly delineated on Plan PP115 kept in the office of the Permanent
Secretary for Lands and Mineral Resources in Suva and available for inspection at the office of the Permanent Secretary for Urban
Development and Housing in Suva, and at the office of the Savusavu Town Council at Savusavu.

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SECTION 9—NUMBER OF TOWN COUNCILLORS ORDER

Local Government Notices Nos. 7 of 1972, 34 of 1973, 40 of 1973

The number of members of the town councils named in the Schedule and, where the towns are divided into wards, the number of members
for each ward shall, with effect from the next general elections to such councils, be as specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Savusavu Town Council — 9 members___________

SECTION 122—SAVUSAVU TOWN BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART I—PRELIMINARY

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation

PART II—SANITATION

3. Clearing of scrub, brushwood or undergrowth4. Public drains, etc.5. Private drains6. Council may undertake work7. Collection and disposal of garbage8. Latrines and privies9. Cleaning of streets10. Obstruction, etc., an offence

PART III—PUBLIC PARKS

11. Exclusive user of public parks may be granted12. Method of application and approval13. Council may retain exclusive user of any public park14. Charges may be made for admission15. Gatekeeper, etc., to be employed by the Council16. Failing to pay charge for admission17. Fairgrounds18. Hours of entry19. Public parks

"book" means any book or other printed or written matter, picture, print, photograph, film, engraving, etching, map, plan, chart,
record or similar contrivance for reproducing sound, music score and any other article of a like nature forming part of the contents
of the library;

"Clerk" means the Town Clerk, or the person for the time being acting as Town Clerk, of Savusavu;

"Council" means the Savusavu Town Council;

"dump" means the area of land used by the Council for the disposal of garbage;

"fish" means all edible aquatic animals and foods other than shell-fish and turtles;

"library" means any public library belonging to or controlled by the Council;

"librarian" means the person appointed as such by the Council or any other person authorised in that behalf by the Council;

"loud speaker" includes a megaphone and any other device for amplifying sound;

"market" means the place established as a market in the town of Savusavu;

"Market Master" means the Market Master appointed by the Council and includes a deputy duly appointed by the Council;

"offensive matter" means and includes offal, night soil, putrid meat, entrails of fish or poultry, carrion, blood, dung, manure, shells,
bones, rags, fruit and vegetable refuse, soap lees, impure water and any other matter giving off an offensive odour or being in any
way a nuisance or likely to be injurious to health;

"stall" means any place within the market where produce or handicrafts are sold or offered for sale;

"supplier" means a person who supplies produce to a miller, manufacturer or processor.

PART II—SANITATION

Clearing of scrub, brushwood or undergrowth

3.—(1) The Council or an authorised officer thereof may serve upon the owner, occupier or lessee of any land (whether built
upon or not) within the town, a notice requiring him to keep such land clear of all scrub, brushwood, undergrowth and garbage, and
maintain such land in a sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Council or of an authorised officer thereof.

(2) Any owner, occupier or lessee of any land failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

Public drains, etc.

4.—(1) No person shall throw or deposit, or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited, any refuse, garbage or offensive matter
or any kind of matter of a type likely to cause an obstruction, into any public culvert, drain, ditch, sewer of waterway.

(2) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

Private drains

5.—(1) The owner, occupier or lessee of any building, premises or land, shall construct such drains as the Council may, by notice,
require for the effectual removal of all storm, slop and waste water from such building, premises or land.

(2) Such drains shall be properly connected to a public drain or to such other outlet approved by the Council, and shall be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition.

(3) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraphs (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

Council may undertake work

6. If any owner, occupier or lessee of any building, premises or land shall fail to comply with a notice given under the provisions
of by-law 3 or 5 within such time as the Council may in such notice prescribe, the Council may undertake the work, and the cost thereof
shall be a debt due to the Council and may be sued for before a court of competent jurisdiction.

Collection and disposal of garbage

7.—(1) Garbage shall be deposited only in garbage pans supplied by the occupier and approved by the Council or an authorised
officer thereof and such garbage pans shall be in accordance with the requirements of Part X of the Public Health Regulations and
shall be fitted with one or more handles.

(See Cap. 111.)

(2) No person, other than a servant of the Council, shall collect garbage without the permission in writing of the Council.

(3) No person, other than a servant of the Council, shall deposit or cause or permit any other person to deposit any garbage or any
other refuse of any kind at the dump without the permission in writing of the Council, or an authorised officer thereof, and any
person so permitted shall only deposit any such material at such times and places and in such a manner as the Council or an authorised
officer thereof may direct.

(4) Garbage receptacles shall be placed at the side of the road taken by the collecting vehicle, or in such other place as the Council
or any authorised officer thereof may permit in respect of any particular premises, in which case the owner of such premises shall
provide an easy means of access thereto for removal of garbage.

(5) The occupier of a residence, shop, business premises or other building where there may be an accumulation of kitchen refuse or
decomposing matter of any kind shall provide the number of garbage receptacles required by the Council or its authorised officer.

(6) Any person committing any breach of the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence and, in addition to any penalty
to which he is liable under the provisions of by-law 54, shall remove or cause to be removed such garbage or other refuse in such
a manner and within such time as the Council or an authorised officer thereof may direct:

Provided that the Council may cause the garbage or other refuse to be removed and may recover the costs and expenses incurred in such
removal from the occupier.

Latrines and privies

8.—(1) The owner of any dwelling-house, business premises, lodging house or any place where persons are accommodated or labour
is employed, shall construct latrines or privies of such type and number as the Council may, by notice, require.

(2) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

Cleaning of streets

9.—(1) No person shall upon any street or public place throw or deposit or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited any offensive
matter, tins or refuse of any description.

(2) The occupier of any business premises shall not allow trade goods, cases, boxes, barrels or any merchandise of any description
to remain on any street.

(3) No person shall permit any cattle, horse, sheep, pig or goat to graze upon any public place without the written consent of the
Clerk or any other person authorised by the Council.

(4) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Obstruction, etc., an offence

10. Any person who obstructs, molests or hinders any officer or servant of the Council in the execution of his duty or who uses violent
or threatening language to or attempts in any way whatsoever to intimidate such servant or who endeavours by any bribe, threat or
promise to cause any such servant to neglect or exceed his duty shall be guilty of an offence.

PART III—PUBLIC PARKS

Exclusive user of public parks may be granted

11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these By-laws, the Council may grant permission to any sporting, social or other organisation
or body to have exclusive use of the whole or any part of any public park on any particular day or days for purposes approved by
the Council and may give such organisation or body power to levy charges for admission:

Provided that—

(a) notwithstanding the grant of any such permission, the Council may, in its absolute discretion, revoke such permission to enable the
public park to be used for other purposes in connection with a special occasion;

(b) the Council may, in its absolute discretion at any time, declare any public park to be unusable, in which case the flying of a red
flag and the posting of a notice declaring such park to be unusable, at the entrance to the park, shall be deemed to be sufficient
notice to all persons that the park is unusable.

(2) Any person using any public park for sporting, recreational or social purposes when such park has been declared to be unusable
shall be guilty of an offence.

Method of application and approval

12.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), any application for the grant of exclusive user of any public park shall
be made to the Clerk not less than fourteen days before the day, or the first of the days, when such user is required and shall be
subject to approval by resolution of the Council.

(2) Where, by reason of special circumstances, it is not possible for an application to be made at least fourteen days before the
user, or first user, of any park is required, such application may be made to the Clerk who shall consult the Mayor, whose decision
shall be deemed to be the decision of the Council and shall be reported to the Council at the next meeting thereof.

Council may retain exclusive user of any public park

13.—(1) The Council may, by resolution, retain to itself the exclusive user of the whole or any part of any public park on any
special occasion.

(2) The Council may from time to time set aside any public park or any portion thereof for use as a children's playground and install
therein equipment for use by children in which event the Council may prohibit the use of such equipment by persons of above such
age as the Council may, by resolution, determine.

Charges may be made for admission

14. The Council may, by resolution from time to time—

(a) make a charge to be paid by the organisation or body to which permission has been granted for the exclusive user of any public park
or any part thereof under the provisions of by-law 11, which charge may be a lump sum or a percentage of the gross gate receipts;
or

(b) make a charge to be paid by members of the public on any occasion when the Council retains to itself the exclusive user of any public
park or any part thereof.

Gatekeeper, etc., to be employed by the Council

15.—(1) The Council shall provide a gatekeeper and such other persons as may be necessary for the purpose of controlling admission
to any public park, the collection of admission charges and the sale of tickets, whenever the Council, by resolution, makes a charge
based on a percentage of gross gate receipts under the provisions of paragraph (a) of by-law 14.

(2) The gatekeeper shall be responsible to the Council for certifying the gross gate receipts, and the charges referred to in paragraph
(1) shall be calculated in accordance with such certificates and be deducted from such receipts. All such charges shall thereupon
be paid by the gatekeeper to the Clerk.

Failing to pay charge for admission

16. Any person who shall enter or remain within the bounds of any public park or any part thereof without having paid any lawful charge
made for admission thereto under the authority of these By-laws, or who shall neglect or refuse to pay such charge on demand, may
forthwith be removed therefrom and shall be guilty of an offence.

Fairgrounds

17.—(1) No fair, circus or amusement park run for profit shall be established at any place nor shall any equipment be installed
in any fairground or amusement park run for profit except with permission in writing of the Council, and on payment of such fees
as the Council may, by resolution, from time to time, decide, and subject to such conditions as the Council may by resolution impose.

(2) The Council or its officers shall at all times have access to the place prescribed and shall have the right to inspect all equipment
used therein.

(3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) or who fails to observe any condition imposed by the Council under
such provisions shall be guilty of an offence.

Hours of entry

18.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), any person may enter any public park at any time.

(2) The Council may, by resolution, decide particular hours during which any public park, other than a reserve, shall remain closed,
in which case the Council shall cause a notice to be posted or affixed in a prominent place in such park specifying details of such
hours.

(3) Any person who shall enter or remain within any public park during the hours specified under the provisions of paragraph (2) without
the general or specific permission of the clerk may forthwith be removed therefrom and shall be guilty of an offence.

Public parks

19.—(1) No person other than an authorised officer or servant of the Council shall in any public park—

(a) cut, pluck, injure or destroy any turf, tree, bush, shrub, flower, plant or other thing in or upon any part thereof, or dig, cut
or remove any sod, turf, loam, sand, gravel or other substance thereon or therefrom;

(b) negligently or wilfully injure, deface or remove any seat, notice, notice board, post, chair, railing, fence, barrier, or other thing
which may from time to time be erected or placed therein by or with the authority of the Council;

(f) wilfully interfere with the authorised user thereof or with any game or sport permitted by the Council therein;

(g) sell or offer or expose for sale any food or other goods therein without the prior permission of the Council or an authorised officer
thereof;

(h) deliver or read any public lecture, prayer, sermon or address of any kind or hold or take part in or cause any public assemblage
without the prior permission of the Council, and then only at such times and places as the Council may permit;

(i) draw, take or drive any truck, car, motor-cycle, bicycle, scooter, wheelbarrow, carriage or other vehicle other than an invalid's
chair or child's perambulator or push-cart, therein without the prior permission of the Council or an authorised officer thereof;

(j) bathe, wade or wash in any pond or pool therein or wilfully or negligently foul or pollute the water of any such pond or pool, or
take, injure or destroy, or attempt to take, injure or destroy any fish in any such pond or pool;

(k) throw or deposit or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited, anywhere therein (including in any building thereon) any litter, garbage
or offensive matter, except in a receptacle provided by the Council for that purpose;

(l) aid in or abet any act or thing which may not be specifically mentioned in these By-laws but which may tend to the injury or disfigurement
thereof or interfere with the use and enjoyment thereof by the public for the purpose of exercise or recreation.

(2) No person shall in any public park—

(a) play at or engage in any game or exercise in such a manner as to injure any path, turf, tree, shrub, flower, plant, building or other
structure or thing therein or upon any part thereof;

(b) wilfully obstruct any officer or servant of the Council in the execution of any work in connection with such public park.

(3) Any person contravening or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

PART IV—NOISE PREVENTION

Noise prevention

20.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), no person shall sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument or operate
a loud speaker in any street, public park or any other park, garden, recreation area, sports ground or reserve to which the public
have access, or in any vehicle in any street therein.

(2) This by-law shall not apply—

(a) to the operation of a loud speaker for military or police purposes;

(b) to the sounding or playing of musical instruments by a band or musician playing with the prior permission of the Council;

(c) to the operation of the loud speaker or the sounding or playing of a musical or noisy instrument at a pleasure fair held with the
prior permission of the Council;

(d) to the operation of any mobile cinema van by any department of Government or by any person with the prior permission of the Council;

(e) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument operated or played with the prior
permission of the Council at any sporting, recreational, social, religious or charitable assembly, event or fixture, conducted with
the prior permission of the Council under the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 11, or subparagraph (h) of paragraph (1) of by-law 19;

(f) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument, operated or played with the prior
permission of the Council, at any sporting, recreational, social, religious or charitable assembly, event or fixture, conducted in
any park, garden, recreational area, sports ground or reserve, other than a public park, to which the public have access;

(g) to the operation of any loud speaker or the sounding or playing of any musical or noisy instrument in any place in respect of which
the Council has granted exemption, either generally or on any particular occasion;

(h) to the operation of any loud speaker in case of emergency.

(3) Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

V—MARKET

Market Master

21. The market shall be under the immediate management and control of the Market Master, who shall be appointed by and be responsible
to the Council.

Produce which may be sold

22. No person, except the holder of a wholesale or retail store licence or a butcher's licence issued under the provisions of any
Act relating to the licensing of businesses, shall sell or offer for sale any produce, other than fresh fish, or shell-fish, in any
place within the town, other than in the market:

Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the sale of produce—

(a) by any producer, to a miller, manufacturer or processor where such produce is sold within the confines of property in the occupation
of such producer or of such miller, manufacturer or processor; or

(b) by any miller, manufacturer or processor to any of his employees or suppliers where such produce is sold within the confines of property
in the occupation of such miller, manufacturer or processor.

Cleaning and gutting fish

23. No person shall bring to the market or offer for sale in the market any fish, other than white-bait or other similar small fish,
unless such fish shall first have been gutted, gilled and cleaned.

Fresh fish

24. During the hours in which the market is open for business no person shall sell by retail fresh fish at any place outside the market:

Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the sale of fresh fish wholesale or by a butcher or fishmonger or a retail or wholesale
store holder, licensed under the provisions of any Act for the time being in force relating to the licensing of businesses.

Restriction on sales

25. No person shall sell or offer for sale in the market any article other than produce or handicrafts.

Hours of business

26. The market shall be open for business during such hours as the Council may direct.

Directions given by Market Master

27. All persons using or being within the precincts of the market shall obey all reasonable directions given by the Market Master
for the purpose of observing the good order and cleanliness of the market.

Sales prohibited except from stalls

28. No person shall sell or offer for sale any article in the market except at a stall allotted to him by the Council or the Market
Master and during the hours that the Market is open for business.

Allocation of stalls

29. The allocation of stalls in the market shall be made by the Council or the Market Master in as fair and reasonable a manner as
possible.

Alterations of stalls

30. No person shall make any alteration to a stall, or exhibit any notice thereon or introduce any fittings, fixtures, furniture or
impediments of any kind without the authority of the Market Master, and any such thing introduced without his authority may be removed
by the Market Master.

Use of stalls

31. No person shall occupy or use a stall so long as any charges which are due and payable for the use thereof are outstanding.

Charges for stalls

32. The Council may, by resolution, from time to time, make a charge for the hire or use of stalls and other space at the market,
such resolution to take effect from the date on which notification of the effect thereof is first posted in the market.

Stall receipts and prices to be exhibited

33. Every stallholder shall exhibit and keep exhibited on his stall while the same is in use, his current receipt for the payment
of the market charges in such manner as the Market Master shall direct and in such position that it can conveniently be read and
inspected at all times by the Market Master or any attendant, and shall have all produce and handicrafts for sale by him at such
stall legibly and conspicuously marked with the prices at which he offers the same for sale and in a manner clearly to indicate that
price to the public.

Exchange, subletting, and sharing of stalls

34. No stallholder shall exchange, sublet, surrender or part with the possession of his stall or share his stall with another vendor
or person except with the permission of the Market Master.

Advertising and auctions

35. No person shall in the market advertise goods by shouting, or conduct a sale by auction except with the permission of the Market
Master.

Selling mixed yaqona prohibited

36. No person shall sell or offer for sale mixed yaqona in any part of the market without the prior approval of the Council.

Cooking in the market

37. No person shall do any cooking in any part of the market without the prior approval of the Council.

Intoxicating liquor prohibited

38. No person shall bring into the market any intoxicating liquor or methylated spirit.

Unwholesome products

39. No person shall bring into the market anything which in the opinion of the Market Master is bad, obnoxious, unwholesome or dangerous,
and the Market Master may remove or cause to be removed any such thing brought within the precincts of the market.

Hygiene

40. Stallholders shall keep their produce and expose it for sale in as hygienic a manner as is practicable and shall obey all reasonable
directions of the Market Master in this regard.

Cleanliness

41. Stallholders shall keep their stalls in a clean and orderly condition, and shall, as and when required, dispose of any litter,
and empty containers and refuse as directed by the Market Master. Any stallholder refusing or neglecting to obey the reasonable directions
of the Market Master under the provisions of this by-law may, in addition to any fine to which he may be liable under the provisions
of these By-laws, lawfully be refused the allocation of a stall by the Council or the Market Master.

Dogs prohibited

42. No person shall bring a dog into the market or suffer it to remain there, and the Market Master shall have power to remove or
order the removal of any dog from the market.

Spitting

43. No person shall spit or discharge any nasal fluid or mucus on to any roadway, footpath, floor or other part of the market or on
to any utensil, produce, article or thing standing or being in the market.

Disease

44. No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease or having recently been exposed to infection by such a disease shall
engage in the sale of any goods in the market.

Restriction on entry

45. No person shall enter or remain in the market outside the hours during which the market is open for business without the authority
of the Market Master.

Obstruction of officials

46. No person shall obstruct, prevent, hinder or interfere with the Market Master or any attendant or any person authorised by the
Market Master in the performance of any duty under the provisions of this Part, and no person shall enter the market whilst drunk
or excite a riot or curse or swear or use any gross, indecent, filthy or abusive language or gamble or be guilty of any other misconduct
therein.

Obstruction of market

47. No person shall place any matter or thing on any roadway, footpath or passage in the market so as to obstruct the free use of
such roadway, footpath or passage, or neglect or refuse to remove such matter or thing on being required to do so by the Market Master.

Unsold goods

48.—(1) Goods unsold at the close of the day may be left in the market at the owner's risk with the permission of the Market
Master and any goods so left without such permission may be removed by the Market Master and disposed of in such manner as he may
consider reasonable.

(2) With his consent goods may be left in the care of the Market Master upon payment in advance of a charge to be decided by the Council.

Offences

49. Any person contravening or failing to comply with the provisions of this Part, other than those of by-laws 21, 26, 29, 32 and
48, shall be guilty of an offence.

PART VI—LIBRARIES

Offences

50. Any person who--

(a) wilfully obstructs the librarian in the performance of his duties;

(b) wilfully disturbs any other user of the library;

(c) causes or allows any dog or other animal belonging to him or under his control to enter or remain in the library;

(d) brings into any part of the library any wheeled vehicle or conveyance other than an invalid's chair or child's perambulator;

(e) except in such place as the Council may set aside as a place where smoking is permitted, smokes tobacco or strikes any naked light
in the library;

(f) wilfully soils, tears out, defaces, damages, injures or destroys any book forming part of the contents of the library;

(g) except with the permission of the librarian, fixes any bill, placard or notice to or upon any part of the library;

(h) except with the permission of the Council, partakes of any food or drink in the library, shall be guilty of an offence.

Taking of books

51. No person shall, except in accordance with rules to be made by the Council under the provisions of these By-laws, take any book
away from the library, and any person contravening the provisions of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Return of books

52. Any person having charge or being in possession of any book forming part of the contents of the library, shall return such book
to the librarian within seven days of the service upon him of a notice requiring him so to do, and any person contravening the provisions
of this by-law shall be guilty of an offence.

Rules and charges

53. The Council may, by resolution—

(a) make rules relating to the use of the library or any part thereof or with regard to the borrowing of any book therefrom;

(b) levy a charge for the use of any book in the library;

(c) levy a charge in respect of the late return of any book.

PART VII—MISCELLANEOUS

Penalty

54. Any person guilty of an offence under the provisions of these By-laws shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,
or in the case of a continuing offence to a fine of $4 for each day during which such offence continues, and, in addition to any
such penalty, any expense incurred by the Council in consequence of any breach of these By-laws shall be refunded by such person
to the Board.

The area defined in the Schedule shall be a town for the purposes of the Local Government Act and shall be known as the town of Sigatoka.

SCHEDULE

WESTERN PORTION

Commencing at a point on the right bank of the Nalele Creek and being the most northerly corner of Native Lease No. 7732; thence in
an easterly direction for approximately 9 chains following the said right bank of the Nalele Creek downstream, crossing the Sigatoka
Valley Road and continuing to its junction with the right bank of the Sigatoka River; thence in a southerly direction and following
the said right bank of the Sigatoka River downstream for approximately 65 chains to its junction with the left bank of the Lawaqa
Creek at a point on the southern boundary of C.T. 6621; thence in a generally westerly direction and following the said left bank
of the Lawaqa Creek upstream to a point directly opposite the junction of the left bank of the Solevu Creek with the right bank of
the Lawaqa Creek; thence in a southerly direction by a direct line crossing the Lawaqa Creek to the aforesaid junction of the left
bank of the Solevu Creek with the right bank of the Lawaqa Creek; thence continuing in a southerly direction and following the said
left bank of the Solevu Creek upstream to a point being the north-eastern corner of Native Lease No. 6149; thence in a south-westerly
direction and following the south-eastern boundary of the said Native Lease No. 6149 for approximately 590 links to its most southerly
corner and being a point on the northern boundary of Native Lease No. 6887; thence in an easterly direction and following the said
northern boundary of Native Lease No. 6887 for approximately 30 links to rejoin the left bank of the Solevu Creek; thence in a southerly
direction and following the said left bank of the Solevu Creek for approximately 41/4 chains to the south-eastern corner of the said
Native Lease No. 6887; thence in a westerly direction for approximately 7 chains following the southern boundary of the said Native
Lease No. 6887, crossing the Queen's Road and Fiji Sugar Corporation's Cuvu to Muasara Railway Reserve to the western boundary of
the said Railway Reserve; thence in a north-westerly direction following the western boundary of the said Railway Reserve for 615
links approximately to the north-eastern corner of Native Lease No. 6312; thence crossing the said Railway Reserve by a line bearing
30 degrees 09 minutes for a distance of 71.5 links to the south-eastern boundary of Lawaqa Government Station—Crown Lease No.
IV/88,61; thence following the south-western and western boundaries of Crown Lease No. IV/88,61 by a line bearing 300 degrees 09
minutes for a distance of 2444 links and by a line bearing 40 degrees 17 minutes for a distance of 4258 links; thence crossing a
25 links Right of Way and following the southern, western and northern boundaries of surrendered Native Lease No. 2191, by a line
bearing-

252

degrees

05

minutes

distance

573∙0

links

26

"

13

"

"

820∙0

"

297

"

18

"

"

377∙1

"

32

"

09

"

"

244∙5

"

29

"

28

"

"

248∙6

"

108

"

48

"

"

402∙3

"

166

"

57

"

"

568∙6

" and

122

"

59

"

"

210∙2

"

to the north-western corner of Crown Lease No. IV/88,61; thence following the northern boundary of the said Crown Lease No. IV/88,
61 in a south-easterly direction by a line bearing 127 degrees 46 minutes for a distance of 214∙0 links and a line bearing
109 degrees 36 minutes for a distance of 380 links approximately to the western side of a formed road leading to the reservoir; thence
by a line bearing 19 degrees 25 minutes for a distance of 220 links approximately crossing the said road and the Lawaqa Creek to
its left bank; thence following the Lawaqa Creek downstream for 38 chains approximately to the western side of the 25 links Right
of Way as shown on Plan No. N. 629; thence generally northerly following the western side of the said Right of Way for 20 chains
approximately to the north-western boundary of Native Lease No. 7918; thence north-easterly following the western boundary of Native
Lease No. 7918 by a line bearing 30 degrees 05 minutes 30 seconds for a distance of 612.5 links to the northernmost corner of the
said Native Lease No. 7918; thence crossing Native Lease No. 6577 by a line bearing 88 degrees 30 minutes for a distance of 290 links
approximately; thence following the south-eastern boundary of Native Lease No. 6577 by a line bearing 83 degrees 19 minutes for a
distance of 190∙2 links and by a line bearing 155 degrees 02 minutes for a distance of 399∙9 links to the western boundary
of C.T. 5216; thence in a north-easterly direction and following the north-western boundary of the said C.T. 5216 by a line bearing
30 degrees 12 minutes for a distance of 962∙4 links to its most northerly corner at Korodrigo Native Lands Commission mound;
thence in north-easterly and south-easterly directions and following the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of Native Lease
No. 5052 and the north-western boundary of Native Lease No. 35/39 by lines bearing-

24

degrees

36

minutes

distance

231∙0

links

66

"

19

"

"

26∙0

"

112

"

23

"

"

266∙6

"

137

"

34

"

"

186∙3

"

and

59

"

54

"

"

253∙2

"

; thence in a

north-easterly direction by a direct line bearing 46 degrees distance 180 links approximately to a point being the junction of the
south-eastern boundary of Native Lease No. 2341 with the western boundary of Native Lease No. 848; thence in north-westerly, north-easterly
and south-easterly directions and following the south-western, north-western and north-eastern boundaries of the said Native Lease
No. 2341 by lines bearing-

295

degrees

26

minutes

distance

335∙6

links

315

"

17

"

"

397∙3

"

22

"

39

"

"

178∙5

"

23

"

19

"

"

377∙9

"

and

130

"

03

"

"

521∙1

"

to the

south-western corner of expired Native Lease No. 1818; thence in a north-easterly direction by a direct line bearing 41 degrees 42
minutes distance 945∙2 links to the south-western corner of Native Lease No. 10417; thence in a northerly direction and following
the western boundaries of the said Native Lease No. 10417 and Native Lease No. 10542 by a line bearing 358 degrees 04 minutes distance
943∙9 links to the western most corner of Native Lease No. 7732; and thence in an easterly direction and following the northern
boundary of the said Native Lease No. 7732 by lines bearing 53 degrees 52 minutes distance 136∙4 links and 75 degrees 36 minutes
distance 380∙0 links to the right bank of the Nalele Creek and being the point of commencement.

EASTERN PORTION

A. Commencing at a point on the eastern boundary of Fiji Sugar Corporation's Cuvu to Kavanagasau Railway Reserve and being the north-western
corner of Native Lease No. 447; thence by a line bearing 100 degrees 53 minutes distance 171∙6 links to the north-eastern corner
of the said Native Lease No. 447; thence in a southerly direction by lines bearing 187 degrees 01 minutes distance 570∙8 links
and 189 degrees distance 570∙3 links and following the eastern boundaries of Native Leases Nos. 447, 6513 and 40/6 to the south-eastern
corner of the said Native Lease No. 40/6; thence in a westerly direction by a line bearing 281 degrees 52 minutes distance 516 links
and following the southern boundary of the said Native Lease No. 40/6 to the north-eastern corner of Native Lease No. 4408; thence
in a southerly direction and following the eastern boundary of the said Native Lease No. 4408 by a line bearing 194 degrees 38 minutes
distance 108∙2 links to the northern boundary of Fiji Sugar Corporation's Cuvu to Muasara Railway Reserve; thence in a north-westerly
direction and following the boundary arc of the said Cuvu to Muasara Railway Reserve for 245 links to its junction with the south-eastern
boundary arc of the said Cuvu to Kavanagasau Railway Reserve; and thence in a north-easterly direction and following the south-eastern
boundary of the said Cuvu to Kavanagasau Railway Reserve for 1261 links to the north-western corner of Native Lease No. 447 and being
the point of commencement.

B. Commencing at a point being the junction of the left bank of the Sigatoka River with the southern boundary of Fiji Sugar Coporation's
Cuvu to Muasara Railway Reserve; thence in a south-easterly direction and following the south-western boundary of the said Railway
Reserve for approximately 15 chains to a point bearing 81 degrees 15 minutes distance 25 links from the south-eastern corner of Native
Lease No. 4804; thence in a westerly direction by a line bearing 261 degrees 15 minutes distance 3 ¼ chains approximately and
following the northern boundary of a Native Reserve to the eastern boundary of the Queen's Road; thence in a southerly direction
and following the said eastern boundary of the Queen's Road for approximately 10∙8 chains to meet the prolongation of the southern
boundary of Plan No. N. 1642. (approved lease N.L.T.B. 4/11/2980); thence crossing the Queen's Road and following the southern and
western boundaries of the said Plan No. N. 1642 by a line bearing 284 degrees 29 minutes for a distance of 195 links approximately
and by a line bearing 343 degrees 03 minutes for a distance 302∙1 links and by a line bearing 13 degrees 35 minutes for a distance
of 526∙8 links to the southern side of a 16∙5 link road; thence westerly following the southern side of the said road
and crossing Nayawa Street by a line bearing 280 degrees 38 minutes for a distance of 3 chains approximately to the left bank of
the Sigatoka River; and thence in a northerly direction and following the said left bank of the Sigatoka River upstream for approximately
13 ½ chains to the southern boundary of the said Cuvu to Muasara Railway Reserve and being the point of commencement.

The above descriptions are more particularly delineated on Plan No. PP 3 kept in the office of the Director of Lands, Suva, with copies
of at the office of the Sigatoka Town Council.

And also all that area of land lying on the western side of the Queen's Road and the Kavanagasau-Rarawai railway and extending in
variable widths, not exceeding 45 chains, from the present southern town boundaries at Lawaqa Government Station to the southern
boundaries of the Sigatoka District Hospital at Nakoromumu, but excluding the areas contained in Native Reserve Claim Numbers 3,
9, 29 and 57.

The above described area is shown verged red and is more particularly delineated on Plan PP116 kept in the office of the Permanent
Secretary for Lands and Mineral Resources in Suva and available for inspection at the office of the Permanent Secretary for Urban
Development and Housing in Suva, and at the office of the Sigatoka Town Clerk.

Together with all those parcels of land in the Tikina of Nasigatoka in the Province of Nadroga and Navosa adjacent to the Township
of Sigatoka shown on the following plans deposited with the Department of Lands, Mines and Surveys at Suva:—

All such parcels of land are more particularly delineated on Plan No. PP 62 lodged in the office of the Sigatoka Town Council at Sigatoka,
the Director of Town and Country Planning in Suva and the Director of Lands in Suva.

And together with the following areas of land situated in the tikina of Sigatoka in the Province of Nadroga and Navosa:-

Area 1—

All that area of land lying on left bank of Sigatoka River and adjacent to the southern boundaries of Sigatoka town as proclaimed
by Proclamation 13 of 1966, and bounded generally on the east by the Suva-Nadi highway, on the west by the Queens Road and on the
south by the 5 metre wide road connecting the Suva-Nadi Highway and the Queens Road.

Area 2—

All that area of land lying between the left bank of Sigatoka River and the eastern alignment of the Queens Road and adjoining the
southern boundaries of Sigatoka Town as proclaimed by Proclamation 13 of 1966.

The above areas are shown verged red and are more particularly delineated on plans PP 165 and PP 172 and marked 'A' and 'C' respectively,
kept in the office of the Director of Lands and Surveyor-General, Suva with copies available for inspection at the office of the
Director of Town and Country Planning in Suva and the office of the Sigatoka Town Council at Sigatoka.

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SECTION 5—SIGATOKA WARDS ORDER

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PARAGRAPH

1. Short title2. Division of Sigatoka into wards

Local Government Notice No. 33 of 1973

Short title

1. This Order may be cited as the Sigatoka Wards Order.

Division of Sigatoka into wards

2. The town of Sigatoka is hereby divided into three wards, namely—

(1) the Laselase Ward comprising all that portion of the town of Sigatoka situated to the east of the Sigatoka River;

(2) the Vunisalu Ward comprising all that portion of the town of Sigatoka situated to the west of the Sigatoka River between the northern
boundary of the town and the Lawaqa Creek;

(3) the Lawaqa Ward comprising all that portion of the town of Sigatoka situated to the west of the Sigatoka River between the Lawaqa
Creek and the southern boundary of the town.

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SECTION 9—NUMBER OF TOWN COUNCILLORS ORDER

Local Government Notices Nos. 7 of 1972, 34 of 1973, 40 of 1973

The number of members of the town councils named in the Schedule and, where the towns are divided into wards, the number of members
for each ward shall, with effect from the next general elections to such councils, be as specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Sigatoka Town Council—10 members, as follows:—

Vunasalu Ward — 5 members

Lawaga Ward — 3 members

Laselase Ward — 2 members

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SECTION 122—SIGATOKA (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STAND) BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Management of stand4. Duty to obey directions 5. Prohibitions6. Permit to use commercial vehicle stand7. Permit to be issued by the Town Clerk8. Stand not to be used without permit9. Allocation of stand10. Production of permit11. Obstructing attendant12. Obstructing entrances13. Speed limit14. Attendance on vehicle15. Power to refuse admission16. Protection from liability17. Revocation of permit18. Penalty

First Schedule — Application for Permit to Use Sigatoka Commercial Vehicle Stand

Second Schedule — Permit to Use Sigatoka Commercial Vehicle Stand

Legal Notice No. 25 of 1983

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Sigatoka (Commercial Vehicle Stand) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"attendant" means any person appointed by the Council to carry out duties at a commercial vehicle stand;

"commercial vehicle" means any light or heavy goods vehicle plying for hire for the carriage of any cargo for reward;

"commercial vehicle stand" means any area set apart by the Council for the use of commercial vehicles as a parking place and notified
as such by description published once in the Fiji Royal Gazette and once in a daily newspaper published and circulating in Fiji;

"Council" means the Sigatoka Town Council;

"operator" includes any person, firm, company or organisation who or which owns or operates a commercial vehicle.

Management of stand

3. A commercial vehicle stand shall be under the immediate management and control of the attendant.

Duty to obey directions

4. All persons using or being in the precincts of a commercial vehicle stand shall obey reasonable directions given by the attendant
for the purpose of observing good order and cleanliness in such stand.

Prohibitions

5.—(1) No person shall, without the prior approval of the Council, make alterations to the alignments of a commercial vehicle
stand or exhibit any notice within such stand or introduce fittings, fixtures or impediments of any kind into such stand and any
such thing introduced may be removed by the attendant.

(2) No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale any produce or goods in a commercial vehicle stand without the prior consent
of the Council in writing.

Permit to use commercial vehicle stand

6. Each operator desiring to use a commercial stand shall make an application, in the form set out in the First Schedule, for a permit
to use such stand.

Permit to be issued by the Town Clerk

7.—(1) All permits to use a commercial vehicle stand shall be in the form set out in the Second Schedule and shall be issued
by the Town Clerk on behalf of the Council.

(2) The fee for the issue of a permit shall be as prescribed in the Third Schedule.

(3) No permit shall be issued until the prescribed fee has been paid.

Stand not to be used without permit

8. No operator of a commercial vehicle shall cause or permit such vehicle to enter or use a commercial vehicle stand unless a valid
permit issued under these By-laws is held by the operator in respect of the vehicle.

Allocation of stand

9.—(1) The allocation of bases in a commercial vehicle stand shall be made by the Council.

(2). A vehicle shall park only at the base allocated to it and specified in the permit issued by the Council.

Production of permit

10. The operator or driver of a commercial vehicle shall, upon demand by the attendant, produce for inspection the permit issued in
respect of the vehicle.

Obstructing attendant

11. No person shall obstruct, hinder or interfere with any attendant in the performance of any duties under these By-laws and no person
shall enter a commercial vehicle stand whilst drunk or excite a riot or curse or swear or use any gross or indecent language or gamble
or be guilty of any other misconduct therein.

Obstructing entrances

12. No person shall obstruct any of the entrances, thoroughfares or divisions of a commercial vehicle stand or loiter therein.

Speed limit

13. No person shall drive a motor vehicle upon or within a commercial vehicle stand at a speed in excess of 10 kilometres per hour.

Attendance on vehicle

14. The drivers of commercial vehicles shall constantly be in attendance on their vehicles while the vehicles are in any commercial
vehicle stand.

Power to refuse admission

15. The attendant shall have the power to refuse admission to or eject from a commercial vehicle stand any persons of undesirable
character or any young children unattended.

Protection from liability

16. Nothing contained in these By-laws or in any permit issued by the Council shall be deemed to make the Council responsible for
any loss or damage to any vehicle admitted to or using any commercial vehicle stand or for any injury to any person entering therein.

Revocation of permit

17. The Council may revoke the permit of any operator who is convicted of any offence under these By-laws.

Penalty

Any person contravening by-laws 4, 5 or 6 or by-laws 8 to 14, both inclusive, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to
a fine not exceeding $20.

FIRST SCHEDULE(By-law 6)

SIGATOKA TOWN COUNCIL

SIGATOKA (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STAND) BY-LAWS(BY-LAW 6)

APPLICATION FOR PERMIT BY COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATOR TO USE THE SIGATOKA COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STAND

I/We ......................................................... of ............................................................. hereby
apply for a permit for my/our under-mentioned vehicle(s) to use the Sigatoka Commercial Vehicle Stand.

I/We agree to pay the parking fees as prescribed and to comply with the provisions of the Sigatoka (Commercial Vehicle Stand) By-laws.

Dated this .........................day of ..................................19...........

Operator

SECOND SCHEDULE(By-law 7(1)

SIGATOKA TOWN COUNCIL

SIGATOKA (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STAND) BY-LAWS(BY-LAW 7(1))

PERMIT TO USE THE SIGATOKA COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STAND

................................................................... of ...........................................................
commercial vehicle operator, is hereby permitted to use the Sigatoka Commercial Vehicle Stand with the following vehicles subject
to the Sigatoka (Commercial Vehicle Stand) By-laws.

Dated this ......................day of ............................19..............

Town Clerkfor Sigatoka Town Council

THIRD SCHEDULE(By-law 7(2))

SIGATOKA TOWN COUNCIL

SIGATOKA (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STAND) BY-LAWS(BY-LAW 7(2))

FEES

For each commercial vehicle — $5.00 per base per month.

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SECTION 122—SIGATOKA (CONTROL AND USE OF STREETS) BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Action prohibited4. Article falling from vehicles5. Crossing of gutters, etc.6. Control of motor vehicles without pneumatic tyres7. Control of fireworks8. Street trading

Local Government Notice No. 25 of 1976

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Sigatoka (Control and Use of Streets) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"Council" means the Sigatoka Town Council;

"Town Clerk" means the Town Clerk appointed by the Council.

Action prohibited

3. No person shall in any street—

(a) place, leave or deposit or permit to be placed, left or deposited any derelict vehicle, glass, refuse, rubbish or any noisome or
offensive matter, save under the authority of the Council or in accordance with the requirements of any law for the time being in
force;

(b) wash, repair, grease, dismantle or assemble any vehicle otherwise than in the case of an emergency;

(c) paint any vehicle;

(d) leave any vehicle or any box, crate, barrel or package so as to form an obstruction;

(e) leave any matter or material of an inflammable nature;

(f) wilfully or maliciously damage or destroy any tree, shrub, plant, building or structure, the property of the Council;

(g) wilfully or maliciously extinguish or damage any street lamp or damage any post or power pole;

(h) park or stop an omnibus on any road, street or laneway other than a road, street, laneway or area specified for such parking or stopping;

(i) use any vehicle having an oil or fuel leakage;

(j) encumber or obstruct any street in any manner not hereinbefore described.

Article falling from vehicles

4.—(1) It shall be the duty of the driver of any vehicle to take all reasonable precautions to ensure that no article, substance
or material shall fall from or be deposited by such vehicle on any street.

(2). In the event of any such article, substance or material falling from or becoming deposited by any vehicle the driver thereof
shall take all reasonable steps to safeguard other traffic on the street and to remove such article, substance or material immediately
thereafter.

(3) In the event of failure to remove any such article, substance or material the Council may remove it and the cost thereof may be
recovered from the person responsible for its removal.

Crossing of gutters, etc.

5.—(1) Without the prior written permission of the Council, no planks or other material shall be placed by any person in or
across any gutter or ditch or against any kerb for the purpose of enabling a vehicle to make a crossing of such gutter, ditch or
kerb. In granting any such permission, the Council may, in its discretion, require that the applicant therefor furnish security to
an amount considered by the Council to be reasonable.

(2) No person shall drive any vehicle across any gutter or ditch or on any footpath unless a suitable crossing has been constructed
for the purpose and has been approved by the Council under the provisions of paragraph (1).

Control of motor vehicles without pneumatic tyres

6. No person shall drive or take any motor vehicle without pneumatic tyres upon any street unless authorised by the Council.

Control of fireworks

7. No person shall discharge any firework, cracker or explosive material in a street or public place without having first obtained
permission in writing from the Council:

Provided that no permit shall be required under this by-law for the discharge of fireworks or crackers on New Year's Day, 5 November,
Diwali and the Hindu New Year.

Street trading

8.—(1) Without a permit in writing obtained from the Town Clerk and payment of such fee as the Council may by resolution prescribe,
no person shall use any street or public place for the purpose of—

(a) distributing any pamphlet or advertising matter;

(b) the carrying on of the business of commercial photography.

(2) Any permit granted under the provisions of paragraph (1) may be granted for such period of time and upon such terms and conditions
as the Council may consider appropriate.

SECTION 122—SIGATOKA (HAWKERS) BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Hawkers to be licensed4. Sale of pigeons and wild birds prohibited5. Application for licence6. Council may refuse licence7. Council may suspend or cancel licence8. Issue of licence9. Effect of licence10. Duration of licence11. Duties and obligations of hawker12. Penalty

First Schedule Application for Hawker's Licence

Second Schedule Hawker's Licence

Legal Notices Nos. 115 of 1977, 82 of 1981

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Sigatoka (Hawkers) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"Council" means the Sigatoka Town Council;

"goods" includes beads, jewellery and native curios and articles of food or produce grown in Fiji;

"hawker" means a person who by going from place to place sells goods carried on his person or from a handcart, box, basket, tray and
the like or from a boat, horse-drawn vehicle, bicycle, motor vehicle, or any other type of conveyance:

"officer" means the Town Clerk and also any person acting as such for the time being, any sanitary inspector appointed by the Council,
or any officer or servant of the Council in the performance of any duty under these By-Laws:

"Town Clerk" means the Town Clerk appointed by the Council.

Hawkers to be licensed

3. No person shall within the town follow the calling of hawker or hawk for sale any produce, livestock, or other goods whatsoever
unless he shall be the holder in his own name of an unexpired hawker's licence issued by the Council.

Sale of pigeons and wild birds prohibited

4. No licence issued under these By-laws shall permit the sale of pigeons or wild birds.

Application for licence

5. Every person desirous of obtaining a hawker's licence shall make application, in person, in writing, to the Town Clerk in the form
in the First Schedule.

Council may refuse licence

6. The Council may refuse to grant a hawker's licence to any person.

Council may suspend or cancel licence

7. The Council may suspend or cancel the licence of any hawker for any good cause after giving the holder thereof due opportunity
of being heard.

Issue of licence

8. The Town Clerk shall upon receiving the application mentioned in by-law 5 and, subject to such directions as he shall receive from
the Council in that behalf, issue a licence in the form in the Second Schedule to the applicant.

Effect of licence

9. A hawker's licence issued by the Council under by-law 8 shall authorise only the hawking and sale of such goods as are endorsed
on the licence.

Duration of licence

10. A hawker's licence under these By-laws shall be issued for a period of one year.

(Substituted by Legal Notice 82 of 1981.)

Duties and obligations of hawker

11. A licensed hawker shall—

(a) at all times when hawking carry his licence with him and shall on demand produce the same to any police officer or officer of the
Council;

(b) if by remaining stationary in any road, street, or place, he shall cause any obstruction to pedestrian or other traffic, forthwith
move away from such road, street or place in such manner as effectively to remove such obstruction;

(c) when using a handcart or vehicle of any kind, keep such handcart or vehicle as near as practicable to the left hand side of the road
or street;

(d) keep his boat, basket, tray, utensils, handcart or vehicle clean to the satisfaction of any sanitary inspector appointed by the Council;

(e) prevent any goods intended for human consumption from coming into contact with or being exposed to any dirt, filth, contagion, infection,
flies, or anything likely to render such goods injurious to health;

(f) cease to hawk any goods intended for human consumption while he is suffering from any infection, contagious or offensive disease
or skin complaint;

(g) follow the directions of the authorised officers of the Council as to the location of his stall and his movements when hawking.

Penalty

12. Any person contravening or failing to comply with these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction
to a fine not exceeding $20 and to a further fine of $10 for each day during which such contravention continues.

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Prohibition4. Powers of an authorised person5. Provision for an identity card6. Penalties7. Evidence in legal proceedings

Local Government Notice No. 7 of 1973

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Sigatoka (Litter) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws unless the context otherwise requires—

"abandon" includes to throw, to drop, to deposit, to place, to scatter, to spill, to leave, to cast or otherwise to part with possession;

"authorised person" means a person appointed by the Council to be an authorised person for the purpose of these By-laws or any police
officer;

"Council" means the Sigatoka Town Council;

"litter" means any matter or thing whether solid or liquid or partly solid or partly liquid the possession of which has been abandoned
by any person having the control of the same in any street or land or public place, and includes building, household, shop, garden
and trade refuse or waste; human, animal, fish and vegetables refuse or waste; containers and packaging of any description whether
manufactured in whole or in part of wood, glass, metal, paper or plastic; derelict vehicles, household, shop and factory furniture,
appliances and machinery or any part thereof; timber, wood, glass, iron, concrete, sand, earth, gravel, stone and clay; or any matter
or thing which causes or contributes to or tends to the defacement or defilement of any street, land or public place.

Prohibition

3. No person shall abandon or cause to be abandoned any litter in or upon any street, public place or land save under the authority
of, or in accordance with, the requirements of any law for the time being in force.

Powers of an authorised person

4. An authorised person may require the person whom he finds committing or whom he reasonably suspects to be committing or to have
committed an offence against these By-laws to state his full name and usual place of residence.

Provision for an identity card

5. Every authorised person, other than a member of the Police Force, shall be issued with an identity card by the Council wherein
shall be specified the name of the authorised person to whom it is issued and the fact that he is an authorised person for the purpose
of these By-laws, and in the exercise of his powers and functions under these By-laws an authorised person shall carry an identity
card and, should the circumstances require it, exhibit it for the purpose of his identification.

Penalties

6. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of these By-laws, shall be guilty of an offence under these By-laws
and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20 and to a further fine of $2 for every day during which such contravention
or non-compliance continues.

Evidence in legal proceedings

7. In any proceedings for an offence against these By-laws—

(a) the onus of proof that any litter has not been abandoned shall be on the defendant;

(b) a statement in the complaint that a place referred to therein is a street or a part of a street or a public place or open to use
by the public or is a public resort open to use by the public as of right shall be evidence, and, in the absence of evidence to the
contrary, conclusive evidence of the matters contained therein.

(c) such other handicraft articles as the Council may, by resolution, permit to be sold in the Market;

"Market" means the Sigatoka Market Building and its surrounding as indicated by notice boards;

"Market Master" means—

(a) the person appointed by the Council as Market Master; and

(b) any attendant appointed by the Council to assist the Market Master;

"sell" includes display or offer for sale;

"shell-fish" means edible molluscs and crustaceans;

"stall" includes any place in the Market set aside by the Council for the sale of merchandise:

"stallholder" means-

(a) the person in whose name the receipt for the stall charges is issued; or

(b) the person in charge of the stall with the permission of the person specified in paragraph (a) and the Market Master.

Division of Market

3. The Market may be divided into sections and different charges may be prescribed by By-laws made by the Council for each section
of the Market.

Market Master

4. The Market is under the management and control of the Market Master.

Hours of business

5. The Market shall be open during such hours as the Council determines.

Limitation on sale of certain merchandise

6.—(1) A person, who is not the holder of a wholesale or retail store licence, shall not sell fish, fruit and vegetables, handicrafts,
or groceries, within the Town of Sigatoka except within the Market.

2. A person shall not sell or offer for sale in the Market anything other than fish, fruit and vegetables, handicrafts, or groceries.

3. A person is guilty of an offence if he contravenes paragraph (1) or (2).

Cleaning and gutting fish

7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not bring into or offer for sale in the Market fresh fish that has not been
gutted, gilled and cleaned.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to white-bait and similar small fish, shell fish or turtles.

(3) A person is guilty of an offence if he contravenes paragraph (1).

Smoking prohibited in certain areas

8. A person is guilty of an offence if he smokes in any section of the Market where the sale of fish is permitted.

Directions given by Market Master

9. A person using or within the Market is guilty of an offence if he fails to obey reasonable directions given by the Market Master
in respect of good order and cleanliness of the Market.

Sale to be from stalls

10. A person is guilty of an offence if he sells merchandise in the Market except—

(a) at a stall alotted to him by the Market Master; and

(b) during the hours when the Market is open for business.

Placing of produce for sale

11.—(1) A person shall not place in direct contact with the floor of the Market building or in direct contact with any paths,
road, grass or ground merchandise offered or exposed for sale in the Market.

(2) A person shall place merchandise offered or exposed for sale in the Market—

(a) on the raised concrete stalls provided in the Market; or

(b) on tables, benches, mats, sacking or other articles or materials approved by the Market Master.

(3) A person is guilty of an offence if he contravenes paragraph (1) or (2).

Stall receipts and prices to be exhibited

12.—(1) A stallholder shall exhibit on his stall the last receipt for the payment of the Market charges on that stall.

(2) A stallholder shall exhibit the receipt required to be exhibited under paragraph (1) in such a position that it can conveniently
be read and inspected at any time by the Market Master.

(3) A stallholder is guilty of an offence if he fails to comply with paragraph (1) or (2).

Alterations to stalls

13.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if, without the Market Master's approval, he—

(a) alters a stall;

(b) exhibits a notice on a stall; or

(c) introduces fittings, fixtures, furniture or impediments of any kind on to a stall.

(2) Where—

(a) a notice is exhibited on a stall; or

(b) a fitting, fixture, furniture or impediment has been placed on a stall without the Market Master's approval, the Market Master may
remove that article.

(3) The cost of the removal of an article under paragraph (2) is a debt due to the Council from the stallholder and may be recovered
in a Court of competent jurisdiction.

Use of stalls

14.—(1) A person shall not occupy or use a stall unless he has paid the prescribed charges in respect of that stall.

(2) A person is guilty of an offence if he contravenes paragraph (1).

Exchange, subletting and sharing of stalls

15.—(1) A stallholder shall not exchange, sublet, surrender or part with the possession of the whole or any part of his stall
to another person nor shall he share his stall with another person.

(2) A stallholder is guilty of an offence if he contravenes paragraph (1).

Litter

16. A person is guilty of an offence if he throws, drops, deposits or otherwise parts with the possession of litter or refuse in the
Market except in receptacles provided for that purpose.

Hygiene

17. A stallholder is guilty of an offence if he—

(a) keeps the merchandise he is offering or exposing for sale in an unhygienic condition; or

(b) fails to obey a reasonable direction of the Market Master given in respect of the hygiene of his merchandise.

Permitted merchandise only to be sold

18. A stallholder in a section of the Market set aside for the sale of particular merchandise is guilty of an offence if he sells
any other type of merchandise.

Cooking prohibited

19. A person is guilty of an offence if he cooks anything in the Market.

Shouting and auctions prohibited

20.—(1) A person shall not advertise merchandise for sale in the Market by shouting.

(2) A person shall not sell merchandise in the Market by auction.

(3) A person is guilty of an offence if he contravenes paragraph (1) or (2).

Unwholesome products

21.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he brings into, or keeps, in the Market anything which is bad, obnoxious, unwholesome,
or dangerous.

(2) The Market Master may remove or cause to be removed, anything brought into, or kept in, the Market contrary to paragraph (1).

(3) The cost of removal of an article under paragraph (2) is a debt due to the Council from the person who brought that article into,
or kept that article in the Market and may be recovered in a Court of competent jurisdiction.

Diseases

22.—(1) A person who—

(a) is suffering from an infectious or contagious disease; or

(b) has recently been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease, shall not engage in the sale of merchandise in the Market.

(2) A person is guilty of an offence if he contravenes paragraph (1).

Dogs prohibited

23.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he brings a dog into the Market or allows a dog to remain in the Market.

(2) The Market Master may remove or order the removal of a dog from the Market.

(3) A person is guilty of an offence if he fails to obey an order given to him by the Market Master to remove a dog from the Market.

Restriction on entry

24. A person is guilty of an offence if, without the Market Master's approval he enters or remains in the Market when it is closed.

Obstruction of Market Master

25. A person is guilty of an offence if he obstructs, hinders or interferes with the Market Master in the performance of his duties
under these By-laws.

Disorderly conduct

26. A person is guilty of an offence if he—

(a) enters the Market whilst drunk;

(b) excites public disorder in the Market; or

(c) uses indecent or abusive language in the Market.

Gambling prohibited

27. A person is guilty of an offence if he gambles in the Market.

Obstruction and loitering

28. A person is guilty of an offence if he—

(a) obstructs an entrance, thoroughfare or passage of the Market; or

(b) loiters in the Market.

Certain structures prohibited

29. A person is guilty of an offence if he erects a structure in the Market without the Market Master's approval.

Spitting

30. A person is guilty of an offence if he—

(a) spits; or

(b) discharges nasal fluid or mucus,

on to a roadway, footpath, floor, wall or other part of the Market, or on to any utensil, merchandise, article or thing standing or
being in the Market.

Obstruction of market

31.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he places anything on a roadway, footpath or passage in the Market so as to obstruct
the free use of the roadway, footpath or passage.

(2) A person is guilty of an offence if he fails to remove anything he has placed on a roadway, footpath or passage in the Market
upon being requested to do so by the Market Master.

Selling mixed yaqona prohibited

32. A person is guilty of an offence if he sells or offers for sale mixed yaqona in any part of the Market.

Washing of Market

33.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he fails to remove his merchandise and all other articles he has in the Market from
the Market when requested to do so by the Market Master prior to the Market being washed by the Council.

(2) The Council shall not be liable for loss or damage to merchandise left in the Market contrary to paragraph (1).

(3) The Market Master shall give stallholders 7 days' notice of the intention of the Council to wash the Market.

Unauthorised occupation of stall

34.—(1) The Market Master may remove the merchandise of a person who is occupying a stall without the Market Master's permission.

(2) The cost of removing merchandise under paragraph (1) is a debt due to the Council from the person who occupied the stall and may
be recovered in a Court of competent jurisdiction.

Merchandise may be left in Market

35.—(1) Merchandise may, with the permission of the Market Master, be left in the Market while the Market is closed.

(2) Merchandise which has been left in the Market when the Market is closed without the Market Master's permission may be removed
and disposed of by the Market Master.

(3) The cost of the removal and disposal of merchandise under paragraph (2) shall be a debt due to the Council from the person who
left that merchandise in the Market and may be recovered in a Court of competent jurisdiction.

(4) Neither the Council nor the Market Master is liable for loss or damage to merchandise left in the Market with the Market Master's
permission when it is closed unless the loss or damage results from a deliberate or negligent act of the Market Master.

(5) Merchandise may be left in the care of the Market Master on payment in advance of the prescribed charges

Allocation of stall

36.—(1) The Market Master shall allocate stalls in the Market.

(2) A person aggrieved by a decision of the Market Master under paragraph (1) may, within 3 days of being informed of that decision,
or such longer period as the Council may allow appeal against the decision to the Council.

(3) The Council's decision on an appeal made to it under paragraph (2) is final.

Removal of empty casks, etc.

37. A cask, crate or lumber brought into the Market may be removed by the Market Master and stored at the risk and cost of its owner.

Fines

38. Where a person is guilty of an offence under these By-laws he is liable conviction to a fine not exceeding $100.

By-laws

39. Part VII of the Sigatoka Town By-laws is repealed.

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SECTION 122—SIGATOKA (MARKET FEES) BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation3. Fees

Schedule

By-laws 12 April 1985Legal Notice No. 54 of 1985

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Sigatoka (Market Fees) By-laws.

Interpretation

2. Words and phrases defined in the Sigatoka (Market and Merchandising) By-laws shall have the same meaning in these By-laws.

"incinerator" means any receptacle or construction whether within a building or outside constructed or adapted for the destruction
by fire of any object;

"pollutant" means any solid, liquid or gaseous matter of a poisonous or noxious nature prejudicial to health or the safety of any
person or, by odour or appearance, offensive or objectionable.

Burning of objects prejudicial to health or safety

3. No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Council first had and obtained, burn other than in a building or an incinerator
any object or matter which may constitute a hazard to health or the safety of any person or property.

Pollutants

4. No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Council first had and obtained, light any fire from which a pollutant is
released into the environment.

Authority to burn dead trees, etc.

5. The Council may, upon receipt of written application, authorise in writing the applicant to burn dead trees, wood, long grass,
scrub, stubble, weeds or the cuttings of mowing or trimming arising out of the normal course of agriculture or horticulture, at such
times and subject to such conditions as the Council may prescribe.

Camp fires

6. Nothing in these By-laws shall affect the lighting of camp fires for the purpose of the preparation of food or drink.

Burning of vegetation

7. Nothing in these By-laws shall affect a controlled burning of vegetation or the protection of life or property.

Penalty

8. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of these By-laws shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20 and to a further fine of $5 for every day during which such contravention or non-compliance
continues.

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SECTION 122—SIGATOKA TOWN BY-LAWS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART I—PRELIMINARY

BY-LAW

1. Short title2. Interpretation

PART II—SANITATION

3. Clearing of scrub, brushwood or undergrowth4. Public drains, etc.5. Private drains6. Council may undertake work7. Collection and disposal of garbage8. Latrines and privies9. Cleaning of streets10. Obstruction, etc., an offence

PART III—PUBLIC PARKS

11. Exclusive user of public parks may be granted12. Method of application and approval13. Board may retain exclusive user of any public park14. Charges may be made for admission15. Gatekeeper, etc., to be employed by the Council16. Failing to pay charge for admission17. Fairgrounds18. Hours of entry19. Public park

PART IV—BUS STATION AND TAXI STANDS

20. Management of bus station and taxi stands21. Licence to use bus station or taxi stand22. Licences23. Fees24. Payment of fees25. Bus station or taxi stand not to be used without licence26. Revocation of licence27. Control of bus station or taxi stand

First Schedule—Application for Licence to Use Sigatoka Bus Station, etc.

Second Schedule—Licence to Use Sigatoka Bus Station, etc.

Third Schedule—Fees

Fourth Schedule—Application for Dance Hall Licence and Licence

By-laws 25 July 1966, Local Government Notices Nos. 14 of 1969, 19 of 1973,1 of 1975, 10 of 1976, 11 of 1977, Legal Notices Nos. 44 of 1981,20 of 1982, 52 of 1985, 53 of 1985

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. These By-laws may be cited as the Sigatoka Town By-laws.

Interpretation

2. In these By-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

"authorised" means duly authorised by the Council;

"book" means any book or other printed or written matter, picture, print, photograph, film, engraving, etching, map, plan, chart,
record or similar contrivance for reproducing sound, music score, and any article of a like nature forming part of the contents of
the library;

"bus operator" includes any person, firm, company or organization which owns or operates a motor omnibus;

"bus shelter" means any shelter owned and controlled by the Council for the use of bus passengers in the town of Sigatoka;

"bus station" means the Sigatoka Bus Station maintained and controlled by the Council, being more particularly defined and delineated
as Lot 1 on plan N.1646 lodged in the Department of Lands;

"Council" means the Sigatoka Town Council;

"dance hall" means any hall, house, room, garden or other place kept or used, other than on an isolated occasion or during the course
of religious festivals, for public dancing, singing, music or other public entertainment of a similar nature, but does not include
any licensed hotel or licensed cinematograph theatre;

"dump" means the area of land used by the Council for the disposal of garbage;

"library" means any public library belonging to or controlled by the Council;